Química e as tecnologias digitais : investigação sobre as representações docentes

Abstract

The social changes brought by the insertion of available digital technologies on the market presents geographical order from up to relational speed in time and space that do not inserts the patterns of past societies. Thus, discussions related to the technological resources with the education, especially in the last two decades (1990-2010), established itself as a profitable view of research in several knowledge areas, being worthy of reflections, challenges, provocations and investigations. This way, the purpose of this work is to study the representations of Chemistry teachers in the state education system located in the city of Caxias do Sul, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The general objective was the investigation of the teachers representations over teaching the Chemistry syllabus content and digital technologies, with the goal of identifying aspects that permeate and/or surround the didactic and pedagogical strategies that develop the teaching and learning process of this science in the daily schools education. The theoretical support was based on authors such as Manuel Castells, Ladislau Dowbor, Roger Chartier, Juan Ignácio Pozo, Miguel Gómez Crespo and Yves Chevallard. The empirical nature characterized as descriptive type survey, had 17 Chemistry teachers as a subjects, working in eight schools belonging to the state education system. The instruments were questionnaire and interview. The data analysis was based on the discursive textual method from Roque Moraes and Maria do Carmo Galliazzi. The main result was the emergence of definitive categories of the research field context, being named with derived expressions from the Chemistry teachers, being bounded on two distinguished domains, namely: i) here has no conditions, and ii ) help to see the everyday. Through the emergence of these categories, it was concluded that there are differences in the representation of chemistry teachers in relation to the discourses and practices regarding the use of digital technologies in the teaching of the Chemistry class syllabus.