Formação continuada com foco na cultura digital no ambiente educacional na rede pública municipal em Bento Gonçalves

Abstract

This master's thesis is linked to the Graduate Program in Education at the University of Caxias do Sul and to the research line "Processos Educacionais, Linguagem, Tecnologia e Inclusão." The study is part of the Project - RedimPratEdu - Redimensionamento das práticas educativas no contexto da cidadania e educação digital". The main goal is to analyze how continuing development courses with focus on digital culture in the educational environment are offered by the Municipal Bureau of Education (SMED) of the municipality of Bento Gonçalves to elementary school teachers. For theoretical support, the study approaches the concept of digital culture and a review on how digital technologies have advanced in society today - including in education. In addition to that, it focuses on a document called Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) especially in matters that concern the presence of digital technologies in the school environment. It also deals with how initial and continuing education might contribute towards teachers' pedagogical practices and with political policies focused on digital culture and education. The research design is linked to the qualitative approach, in which the data were constructed from documents and examined based on Content Analysis. The data were constructed from reports made available by SMED with the list of courses offered and their program content within a time frame of six years (2018-2023). Data point out that the continuing education courses that took place within that time frame were offered online or face-to-face, and there is nothing mentioned to other modes in the documents analyzed. In addition to that, it is possible to establish that some courses with focus on digital culture were offered during this time frame and that a reduction in that offer can be observed during the years corresponding to the pandemics of Covid-19. The study presents some data related to each year corresponding to the documents analyzed, including how many courses were offered and when. However, due to the nature of this being documentary research, it was not possible to determine whether the courses offered were satisfactory to support teachers in the context of education within digital culture. [resume fornecido pelo autor]