INSS rehabilitates and SENAC and SENAI professional education: perceptions about vocational training and reinforcement to work

Abstract

The article addresses the professional education of SENAC and SENAI offered by the Professional Rehabilitation Service of INSS to insured persons who are incapacitated, totally or partially for work, due to illness or accident, aiming at learning a new activity that allows them to re-enter work. The study carried out field research with policyholders rehabilitated by the INSS of the municipality of Pato Branco-PR, who took a professional training course at SENAC or SENAI in the period from 2015 to 2017, as well as with the teachers and pedagogical coordinators of these institutions. The research investigated the evaluation of courses in the perception of research participants and whether professional training contributed to reintegration into work. Data were collected using the focus group technique with the rehabilitated and with the teachers linked to SENAC and SENAI. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with the pedagogical coordinators and rehabilitated. Qualitative data were analyzed and interpreted using principles from the Content Analysis methodology. The survey showed that policyholders had access to different types of professional education, with some having access to a professional qualification that was only initial and lightened to exercise the activity, while others had access to a more structured technical qualification training. It also revealed that the professional training process has presented limits on the training of the insured for a new activity that effectively allows reinsertion to work, in addition to showing that the development of such training courses does not consider the singularities of the insured in the rehabilitation process, such as individual desires and expectations, or even aspects related to the consequences of illnesses or accidents at work.