Formação de professores e tecnologias: implicações da educação a distância na prática docente

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the implications of teachers’ education by the meaning of technologies of the information and communications, of an education in distance (EAD) course, about the reference of the classroom practice and the relationship with the technologies. We made a case study related to the pedagogy course offered by University Federal of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), in the Cataguases` pole. We investigated, by interviews and questionnaires applied to teachers graduated by the matter course, which has worked and still working as teachers in the city and region, how do they used the information and communication technologies (TIC) in their daily education practice. Our main objective was to investigate if the teacher who was graduated through the technologies would use more those TIC as pedagogical mediation in their teaching practice, compared with his work before his education course. In concern to the theoretical approach, this study was based on the theorethical view of Babin e Kouloumdjian (1989), Castells (1999), Kenski (2003, 2007), Schön (2000), Vygotsky (1998, 2009) Belloni (2001, 2002, 2009), Borges (2006) and others. We privileged the reflections about the distance education and your relationship with the new technologies, as well as the questions about the teacher’s graduation. Through our analyses, it was possible to perceive that the teachers graduated by “EAD” made use of the technologies means in the diary professional life education. However, this practice represents more in the question of the classes’ preparation, in the interaction of the socials network and research demands. Some factors were identified as possible reasons for the limitation or incipient use of the technologies as an education resource like as: the classroom absence or precariousness of the school’s information technology classroom, insufficient incentives by the educational coordinators, and others.