Social and economic elements that contribute to local development: an analysis from the perspective of teachers and students

Resumo

The objective was to identify and analyze in the perception of teachers and students of the Specialization Course in Municipal Public Management at the Federal University of Maranhão the social and economic elements that contribute to local development. Application of an online questionnaire, with a question utilizing the inducing term and an open question. The responses obtained were from six teachers and thirteen students, between the period from November/2021 to February/2022. Data were analyzed using the IRaMuTeQ software, the following analyses: lemmatization of content matrices; similitude; prototypical. In the results, the frequency of words (f) and the Average Order of Evocation (OME) evidenced that the teachers and students of the social representations, the elements predominantly: “education” (f=13 and OME=3.0), “health” (f=12 and OME=2.9) and “economic development” (f=10 and OME=1.3). In the Similitude Analysis with the elements of the teachers the connections were “health”, “education”, “public policies”, “economic development” and “sustainability”, while for the students the connections were “education”, “health”, “development economy”, “infrastructure”, “income distribution” and “entrepreneurship”. It is concluded that, the elements of local development in the participants’ perception includ social justice with access to public services, boost the economy, public management actions that contribute to enhance and favor development.