A análise das formações realizadas a distância pelo projeto jovem cientista para escolas de Porto Alegre participantes do projeto jovem de futuro

Abstract

This thesis or dissertation has the purpose of analyzing the academic formation of the Project “Jovem Cientista, which is part of the Project “Jovem de Futuro” realized by the Instituto Unibanco in a partnership with the Secretaria de Educação do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul in order to understand from the view of the participating teachers what are the qualities, the problems and the effectiveness of the respective course (project) and then to propose some improvements to the virtual course itself and to establish some strategies to the formation of teachers of the course developed by Instituto Unibanco. In order to reach these targets, the research took for basis the fact that in practice the academic formation of the teachers from the Project “Jovem Cientista” is not effective in its results once the original project does not take into consideration the multiple aspects related to the learning process of virtual environments. In order to investigate the relevance of this search or thesis it were conducted semi-structured interviews with fifteen teachers of Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, who enrolled to the Project “Jovem de Futuro” at distance promoted by the Project “Jovem de Futuro in 2012. In order to complete this work, the research methodology included the analysis of the resources of the Virtual Environment and the data obtained from available reports involving the participation of the teachers. Based on the searches results and in light of theoretical references which are related to the academic formation question, especially the academic formation in courses by distance, it was possible to verify the existence of bottlenecks in teacher‟s registration in the courses and also in the development of the moderators responsible for monitoring the teachers. Furthermore it was verified that there is a low effectiveness of the offered course, especially in relation to the absorption of the contents in Sciences by the participants, what turns very difficult the realization of the project in schools. Finally this paper work proposes a plan of educational intervention, with the purpose to improve the academic formation of the teachers which are part of the Project “Jovem Cientista” by distance in order to attend the educational demands nowadays.