Desafios na implementação e gestão das tecnologias de informação e comunicação nas práticas pedagógicas de uma escola pública estadual da cidade de Governador Valadares/MG

Abstract

The following research was developed in the range of the Professional Master degree in Education Management and Evaluation (PPGP) of the Center of Public Policies and Evaluation of Education of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAED/UFJF). The case in study analyzes the challenges of the management team in a public school located in the city of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, in the implementation and management of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the educational context. For that purpose, the following guiding question was defined: how can the school management improve the insertion of ICTs in the pedagogical practice of the institution? We take as a hypothesis that the ICTs are under-utilised in the analyzed educational institution, and that the school management faces difficulties in enabling the technological resources to be better exploited, especially in pedagogical practices. This hypothesis is based on the fact that the institution has a laboratory and computing equipments, as well as other technologies, but the use of this infrastructure is limited, and there are no management actions besides recommendations for use of the equipment that the school possesses. The institution lacks a well thought-out planning that ranges from the training of managers, teachers and students, to the organization of times and spaces of the school regarding the use of Information and Communication Technologies. Therefore, the lack of training and a political and didactic-pedagogical planning tends to focus on underutilization of the resources that the school has. This research has as general objective to identify and analyze factors that imply in the underutilization of the TICs in the pedagogical practices of the School, so that it serves as subsidy for actions of the school management in the improvement of its insertion in the environment of teaching and learning. The specific objectives defined for this study were: i) to describe the problems of the management case, and more specifically, the School's difficulties in using ICTs in class and in other didacticpedagogical activities. ii) analyze obstacles to the use of ICTs in the school environment and iii) offer solutions as actions that may that allow the management of the institution to promote the use of ICTs between teachers and students. For this purpose, qualitative research will be used as a methodology, and as field research instruments questionnaires will be applied to teachers and students of the School, as well as an interview with the management team and with the pedagogical coordinators. For the theoretical basis of the study, the reflections of authors such as Almeida (2005), Valente (2005), Moran (2007), Kenski (2010) and Silva (2009) will be used, which approach ICTs as tools to build knowledge and that can be used by the school to enhance learning and to prepare students for changes in the contemporary world, and Lück (2006) which discusses how educational management plays a fundamental role in organizing, mobilizing and articulating the educational process in educational institutions.