Estratégias pedagógicas de educação para a paz na educação superior: uma experiência com estudantes de engenharia mecânica

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the impacts of pedagogical strategies based on Peace Education considering the communicational and relational educational process of students in the Mechanical Engineering degree program at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná. The empirical field was the discipline of Linguistic Communication, a curricular component that enables the integration of technical engineering knowledge with the communicative skills essential for the comprehensive training of engineers. The developed activities were organized into a didactic sequence based on the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) field. A qualitative, descriptive approach was adopted, grounded in the intervention-research method. The data collected were analyzed using the content analysis method from Bardin's perspective (2016). The results indicated advances in the development of students' critical thinking, the broadening of their conceptions of peace, and a deeper understanding of attitudes toward communication. The intervention demonstrated strong formative potential by fostering greater ethical and relational awareness, suggesting that pedagogical practices guided by Education for Peace can significantly contribute to the comprehensive education of engineers. This research showed that the inclusion of Education for Peace in higher education-specifically in the Linguistic Communication discipline-strengthens the integration between technical and humanistic skills, representing a promising path for the consolidation of civic, critical, and socially responsible engineering education. The educational product resulting from this research is an e-book, available at the University's Institutional Repository, meaning the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná. The e-book presents a didactic sequence developed from the strategies grounded in this study. It aims to promote Education for Peace in students' communication- and relationship-related attitudes within the context of contemporary engineering education. Future research could explore the implementation of the e-book in other courses.