Verticalization in Federal Institutes

With the transformation of the Federal Technical Schools into Federal Technological Education Centres, these institutions began to offer courses ranging from technical education to doctoral degrees (Otranto, 2011), which implied the verticalization of teaching. Verticalization, which results from the new conceptions of technological education in Brazil, and which goes beyond the limits of training levels (Pacheco, 2011), can have a major influence on teaching methods and techniques and on the construction and development of curricula, which imply a logical and coherent profile of subjects (Silva, 2015). With this curricular organization, teaching takes on greater complexity, since teachers work simultaneously in basic education and higher education, and have to carry out research, extension and management activities, which seems to require teachers to make an extra effort to respond to the various demands. The aim of this study was therefore to find out the impact of the verticalization of teaching on the performance of teachers' activities. To this end, a quantitative methodology was used and data was collected using a closed-ended questionnaire.