Projeto pedagógico do curso de Letras e Políticas Educacionais: diretrizes curriculares e referenciais de qualidade

Abstract

This work aims at addressing a relevant issue to the management and the educational practices of distance learning: the constitution of a Pedagogical Project of a graduation course regarding the interaction process, which must follow the regulations set for this course and also the determinations for this modality. The Project analyzed is from the Language Arts course with major in Portuguese of the Universidade Aberta do Brasil (Open University of Brazil) / Federal University of Santa Maria. In this sense, to develop this research, a case study was developed and, for data collection, it was conducted reading and analysis of educational public policies for the formation of teachers from basic education, more specifically the Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais (National Curriculum Guidelines) for the Language Arts course and the Referenciais de Qualidade (Quality Assurance Criteria) for Distance Higher Education. In a second moment, an analysis was conducted on how the decisions established by these Public Policies in the Pedagogical Project of the course in question were implemented in order to identify to what extent the guidelines regarding the interaction processes are being applied in this document. The results indicate that in some aspects of the course’s Pedagogical Project there is a concern in providing interaction among participants in order to reflect, debate and question the contents studied, the students’ doubts, their points of view, even if some aspects are not as explicit as they should. Therefore, we understand that there is care in articulating the course’s pedagogical proposal with official guidelines.