PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ON INTEGRATED HIGH SCHOOL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: A SCIENCIOMETRIC PANORAMA

ABSTRACT: Integrated High School is an educational policy aimed to integrating high school with vocational education, as explicitly stated in Decree No. 5,154/04, being a priority responsibility of the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education, especially the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology (IFs), created from Law No. 11.892/2008. However, it has been realized that Integrated High School is still a challenge, because it is consolidating both theoretical and practically. This has led to some reformulations in educational policies and a rise of scientific researches on Integrated High School. In this sense, this study aims to analyze the production of knowledge about the Integrated High School in Federal Institutes of Education, in the period from January 2008 to March 2019. The Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations was chosen as database, to a scientometric analysis. The corpus constituted 159 academic productions, composed by dissertations and theses. In conclusion, the production of knowledge about Integrated High School in Brazilian Federal Institutes of Education focuses on basic and empirical research, with qualitative approach and its main theme is the didactic-pedagogical disciplinary experiences.