O papel do diretor escolar na implementação das tecnologias de informação e comunicação: um estudo em duas escolas da superintendência regional de ensino de Caratinga (MG)

Abstract

The objective of this study is to identify the role of the principal, his/her actions that allow the integration of technologies in the school environment and his/her participation to transform the computer room into a place of learning. ICTs are increasingly present in the daily school and the effective use of these technologies is a challenge for principals, teachers and students. In this perspective, we analyzed two schools of Caratinga Regional Superintendence of education that have installed technological equipment in order to identify whether there is an effective use of the technologies in everyday school life, more specifically the computer room. It was found as the school principal and actor protagonist in the use of new technologies in the educational environment, can promote the use of the computer room as an educational support tool and recognizing its role as implementing agent of these technologies to analyze, because of new trends, his/her perspective in the implementation of ICT in the school routine. It is a qualitative research, where the instruments used were focus group, applied to teachers and students of the 5th year of primary school - early years and semistructured interviews applied to principals of the two schools. Based on the results of the research it was proposed an Educational Action Plan - EAP, through which actions have been established that enable the use of ICT in schools, such as teacher training, the inclusion of projects in the schools PPP that promote the use of ICT in pedagogical practice, the expansion and restructuring of computer rooms.