Um estudo sobre a utilização da educação a distância na formação em Arquivologia no Brasil

Abstract

The university as an ancient institution and being almost millenial assumes various forms and identities depending on the century and according to the country taken in to consideration. The new paradigms sustaining the teaching and learning process are intrincated in a virtual environment and a new modality of education. Distance Education. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the possibility of Distance Education implementation in archieves studies under the point of view of Coordinators of Archivology Graduation Courses implemeted in Brazil. There were fourteen Institutions of Superior Teaching analized of which eleven are from the Federal system and three are from the Statal system. Theoretical concepts of guidance were observed to improve the compreheension of the questions envolved – the sustain of cientific investigation is based on Superior Teaching, Distance Education and Archieve Teaching. Distance Education in Brazil as well as the offering of Archivology Courses (graduation, post-graduation and technical courses) were rather contextualized from beggining to the present times. The necessary data to respond to the object of investigation was obtained through out direct and extensive observation, aplication of research tool, obtaining the return of 86%. These results show that more than half a group among the reasearched institutions does not have studies on Distance Education in Archivology. Only 42% of the Courses Coordinators have previous experience in Distance Teaching and, 33% never had experienced Distance Education as tutor or student. However, the majority of the surveyors agreed on the point that the masters as wide and narrow content formers, must produce their own teaching materials looking forward enrich the process of teaching and learning. Only the Federal Univertsity of Santa Maria is offering Archieves Study in Distance Education in this country in partnership with the Brazilian Opened University. Its first edition of Latu Sensu post-graduation course in Archieves Management was in the year of 2008. The course lasts for eighteen months, with duration of 360 hours of lecture in total. The institutions has three poles around the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where the students take presencial evaluations for every learning component each bimester.