Democratização do conhecimento através dos laboratórios de informática nas escolas do campo da 17ª Coordenadoria Regional de Educação do RS

Abstract

This thesis was developed in the Professional Science Master’s Degree in Online Educational Technologies of Federal University of Santa Maria (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM), under the study line Management of Online Educational Technologies, in the Concentration Area of Online Educational Technologies for Innovation and Democratization of Education. The objective of this study was to analyze and understand how information and communication technologies (ICT) have been used as pedagogical support in the sixteen rural schools of the 17th Regional Education Coordination of Rio Grande do Sul state, through their Educational Informatics Laboratories (EIL). Thus, a qualitative-quantitative research was conducted, being applied different questionnaires to the schools’ management team, educators and learners, respectively, in each of the rural schools. The results showed that all schools have computer labs, but some of them do not have access to the Internet. Although most educators have ICT training courses, they still face difficulties to propose educational activities in EIL. The students from schools whose EIL are good enough have shown themselves satisfied, judging the lab activities as the ones they like to do the most in schools. The students from those schools which laboratories are not good enough pointed out the activities involving technologies as those ones they would most like to do at school. More than 90% of the management teams have demonstrated that they work from a curriculum focused on the urban environment, and not on rural areas. This corresponds to the fact that most students intend to leave the countryside as soon as possible. The final product of this work is the case study carried out.