Tecnologias digitais: a apropriação pelos professores dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental na prática pedagógica e a relação com a proposta curricular de língua portuguesa do município de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The appropriation of Digital Technologies (DTs) in the pedagogical practice, by elementary and junior high teachers in municipal schools of Juiz de Fora, and the possible articulation of such practice with the Portuguese Language Curricular Proposal for that level, considering the basic process of reading and writing and process of literacy constitutes the focus of this research. Its organization is guided by a qualitative research based on Vygotsky's theory of social construction of knowledge (1995, 1996, 1998, 2007), and Bakhtin'senunciative theory of language (1992, 1999, 2003). In addition to these theories, the groundwork is anchored in studies by Soares (2002, 2004), Freitas (2008, 2009, 2010 and others) and Rojo (2010, 2012), Lévy (1999), Bevilaqua (2013) and Kenski (2012a, 2012b). The interview, the participant observation and the questionnaire are the chosen instruments for data collection once they provide a dialogical relationship between the researcher and the researched ones. Moreover, it was added the documental analysis of the Portuguese Language Curricular Proposal. The research verified that teachers have appropriated DTs in their pedagogical practice as cultural instruments of current learning and developed a work hoping to teach the alphabet with literacy by using DTs.The practices of the teachers who are subjects of the research were aligned with the purpose of building a school curriculum in line with the new social tendencies of a technologized society.Teachers propose varied activities with the intention of working on the instrumental use of technologies or, more broadly, for pedagogical purposes, in which the objectives go beyond the instrumental use, being related to the curricular contents that are expected.Of all the mentioned practices, the game is prominent in the Computer Laboratory (CL), allowing the construction of knowledge in different areas and greater appropriation of the digital universe. Planning and material and human resources were identified as fundamental elements for the work with DTs, being pointed as obstacles to a good practice, the difficulty of connecting to the Internet, the insufficient condition and quantity of equipment and the function diversion of the CL teacher.The teacher responsible for the CL of the school has its practice focused on the teaching-learning process of the students, but also the teacher is a trainer of their peers, recognized by them, regarding the use of DTs. The pedagogical practice developed in the CL is influenced by the orientations of the Portuguese Language Curriculum Proposal, according to the conception of the literacies (multiple), although it supplants the last one, concerning the construction of a work that goes towards the perspective of multiliteracies. According with this direction, it became evident the importance of continuing the work with the semiotic multiplicity of the texts and also investing, more effectively, in the work with the populations cultural multiplicity, in order to redesign the teaching-learning process