A gestão democrática e a inclusão do letramento digital nos contextos educacionais

Abstract

The present work of the Educational Management Course is the result of a research carried out in three public schools of the Municipal network of Santa Maria, RS. Currently, the development of digital literacy appears as necessary in educational contexts, because we entered the digital age. Managers play an important role in the inclusion of digital literacy in schools, as it can also from them the viability to use digital technologies in the classroom by teachers. For this, the general objective of the study was to determine whether managers (in) enable working with digital literacy in basic education, which is accompanied by the following specific objectives: study the digital literacy in the school context; investigate how school managers (in) enable the inclusion of digital literacy in the school context; analyze the demands caused the school managers for digital literacy in the school context. This research is characterized as a qualitative descriptive research. For data collection was used as an instrument the application of questionnaires to managers of public schools in the municipality of Santa Maria, RS. The research data were analyzed according to the technique of content analysis proposed by Bardin (2016). These reflections start from the theories of Bonilla and Pretto (2011), Buckinghan (2010), Gabriel (2013), Mota (2014), Paro (1997), Nusbaum (2015) and Gomez (2015). The conclusion is that not always the school with better conditions, which has the best computer lab is the one that will provide the inclusion of digital literacy, therefore, depends on the will and viability of all, as well as gestating on public policy for education by public managers.