Gestão de novas tecnologias e desempenho escolar dos alunos: um estudo de caso

Abstract

In a world characterized by globalization of the economy, whose knowledge is the great capital of humanity, the demand for a citizen capable of dealing with the technologies and languages arises as a necessary requirement to enter in the society. Thus, the school management needs to be articulated to overcome the challenges of the contemporary world and to contribute, decisively, in the formation of critical and participatory people. That discussion is enlarged, through the authors' theoretical presuppositions as Demo (2007), Durkheim (1999), Gadotti (2000), Libâneo (2003), Lück (2008) among others that emphasize the importance of a human formation returned to the exercise of the citizenship. The work, in the methodological perspective of the case study, investigates as problem if: There is a relationship between the management of new technologies in school and student performance?" However, the study does not propose to discuss specific technologies or innovations in education, but has as its goal the relevance of these new technologies in the academic performance of students in the final stage of the Rui Barbosa Primary School, in the period 2005 to 2010. Thus, during the research it appears that the management of new technologies in the school environment may in fact be one of the indicators that explain the improvement of teaching and learning of that institution.