Tecnologias móveis na escola : movimentos da gestão escolar

Abstract

This master’s thesis has the purpose of understanding movements of school administration in the process of introducing moblile technology in school in view of Jean Piaget’s Possibility and Necessity(1985, 1986, 1987). Cartography, as proposed by Deleuze and Guattari (1995) and described by Kastrup (2007, 2009, 2013), is the methodology chosen to lead this study, guided by attention as its clue, considering its 4 varieties: tracking, touching, landing and attentive recognition. According to this perspective, the research is divided in 2 movements: constructing the theoretical basis and analyzing data. In the first movement, 4 landings took place aiming at the constitution of the setting of the research. The first one is digital culture, presented according to Levy (1999), Lemos (2003, 2004, 2009), and Castells (2003), and set by a society marked by the advances of microelectronics, in the convergence between information technology and telecommunication, and by the processes of reconfiguration, disengagement of the emission pole, and generalized connection. The second landing approaches technologies in education, especially the Brazilian Project One Laptop per Student, depicting the history of the computerizing process in Brazilian public schools until the 1:1 mode, as per Kenski (2007), Almeida (1997, 1999, 2000), and Valente (1997). In the third landing, the school – research field – is approached, more specifically school administration, constituting the subjects on whom the investigation will focus. Lück (2000) is the basis to explain the advance in the role of the school manager from the insertion of the educational laptops. The second movement in the research is highlighted by the data analysis. Data were built from registers generated during the research project “Pesquisa e avaliação de práticas inovadoras para a inclusão da escola na cultura digital”, (UCS, UFRGS e UNISINOS), from the researcher’s diary, and from the transcript of 5 interviews carried out with the school administrators of a school that participated in phase 2 of the UCA pilot project. Movements that were mapped were presented in 3 landings. The first one deals with the perceptions of the school’s administrators. The second talks about managing people, and it is marked by disturbances that originated teacher’s departure of the school and the composition of new personnel, revealing pseudo-impossibilities and opening to the new possible. The third landing analyses management in its pedagogical dimension, pointing out the dichotomy between technical and pedagogical, as well as the actions of the administration in the perspective of making it feasible to plan and use the laptops in the school. The conducts that were adopted show movements of resistance and openness to novelties, leading to pedagogical changes. This research stands out for the discerning look and sensitive listening of the subjects that make up the school administration, which reveal constant becoming in the openness towards the new possible from the disturbances that have arisen with the insertion of mobile technologies in the school.