Navegando pelas redes da educação a distância: a construção da autonomia dos educadores especiais em formação

Abstract

This work presents the realized research at the Distance Graduation Course of Special Education offers by Federal university of Santa Maria and developed in Bagé, Livramento and Uruguaiana region Rio Grande do Sul. This work thematic s preoccupation is in the autonomy development possibilities in teachers instructing courses to act in the Special Education, developed through the Distance Education. In this way the investigation sought to analyze the autonomic practices proposed and developed in the course, from Freire s categories. The methodology applied approaches the ethnographic and participative research parameters. It has been done through the following teachers instructing done by the Distance Education Course, in order to notice, analyze and understand the way in how the autonomy development is propose and developed in the course. It has been noticed that the autonomy, in the construction perspective based in the interaction and in the presencial and direct exchange of ideas and practices, it is powered in the students presencial meetings with the teachers and tutors, equally by the contest of the articulation and mediation that is also possible due to the technology. As a result the considerations, reflections, suggests, conjectures, mediations, findings and proposed actions were based in the dialogic practice from the historical research conception, as constructive elements of the totality, in a praxis that seek for the construction of a liberator education.