FROM ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE TO PRACTICE: RESEARCH OF THE POST-GRADUATION STAGE IN THE PUBLIC MINISTRY OF THE STATE OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE
Public Prosecutor's Office. Investigation. Postgraduate training. Evaluation.
Federal Law No. 11,788, dated September 25, 2008, brought several changes regarding the internship, conceptualizing it as a supervised school education act, developed in the work environment, aimed at preparing for the productive work of academics who are attending the regular education in institutions of higher education, vocational education, secondary education, special education and the final years of elementary education, in the professional modality of youth and adult education. On January 2, 2012, the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Norte enacted Complementary Law No. 462, dealing with the creation of the internship program for postgraduate students, called MP Residência. In this perspective, the student is confronted with several situations, which guide the theoretical teaching and the practical development of its activities, whose main objective is learning. It is through the stage that the learner has the first experiences of life in the work and the development of activities that aim to insert the student in the professional career. This study aimed to investigate how the knowledge acquired in the academy is applied in the postgraduate stage in the Public Prosecutor's Office of the State of Rio Grande do Norte (MPRN). This was a descriptive and documental study with quantitative and qualitative stages, developed in two phases: In the first phase a documentary research was carried out to present the process of the stage in the MPRN and the mapping of the activities developed by the students of post undergraduate, through the existing reports in the institution from April / 2015 to March / 2017. In the second phase, analyzes were performed on the performance evaluation applied to postgraduate students, seeking to verify the results of the Stage Supervisors and the Resident MPs. In the data treatment, tables and graphs were used, with discussion and interpretation of the same. The results show that the MPRN internship provides the graduate student with the opportunity to improve for the job market, where the students themselves agree that the internship allows the practical application of the knowledge acquired in the academy. Regarding the result of the performance evaluations of the Resident MP, the ethical conduct criterion evaluated by the Internship Supervisor and the criteria for professional training by the student stand out. It is concluded that the postgraduate stage in MPRN extends and improves students' level of knowledge, contributing to the effective interrelationship between theory and practice.