Estratégias para ampliação das práticas do ensino: a importância pedagógica do laboratório de produção audiovisual na formação profissional de jornalistas

Abstract

This dissertation aims to study the use of the laboratory in practical activities of the disciplines Telejournalism and Telejournalism Laboratory at the School of Communication of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (FACOM/UFJF) and the contribution of the technical team - Administrative Technicians in Education (TAEs) and outsourced employees - to the teaching-learning process, focused on professional training. The piece of research presented the following guiding question: how to improve the technical performance in the teaching-learning process in the Journalism course at UFJF? The study described what the course curriculum proposes concerning professional training, the attributions of the technicians involved in carrying out practical teaching laboratory activities, and the respective challenges to the performance of the technical role in the teaching-learning process, analyzing the causes of the main difficulties faced by the technical team in satisfactorily meeting the laboratory activities. The theoretical framework brought concepts and discussions regarding curriculum (theory and practice), teaching, training, and the journalism profession; pedagogical management and practice and the teachinglearning process; television journalism laboratory and professional training; and technical performance and the teaching-learning process. The field research of qualitative methodology was carried out from the application of a questionnaire to teachers and students, in addition to semi-structured interviews with technicians (TAEs and outsourced employees). In the Educational Action Plan (PAE), actions were suggested to optimize the use and functioning of the laboratory space and the respective technical performance, in order to contribute more significantly to the professional training of undergraduate students, within the curricular proposals of the course.