Construção de conhecimentos pedagógicos compartilhados na RADEP virtual: desafios para a educação superior

Abstract

This study is inserted in the Research Line of Professional Formation, Knowledge and Development in the Post Graduation Program in Education at UFSM (Federal University of Santa Maria RS Brazil). This research works from virtual meetings of teachers formation, involving 10 professors from the Administration Course Systems Analysis at FSG (Faculdade da Serra Gaúcha Caxias do Sul RS Brazil). These meetings were organized in five scenarios, each one of them with a question as a guideline. The goal is to identify how these professors construct their shared pedagogical knowledge, through a virtual interactive net for professional development (RADEP Academic Net for Professional Development). The main question in this research is: how professors construct shared pedagogical knowledge in virtual RADEP? The research is based in the theory of teachers formation and development, shared pedagogical knowledge, collaborative nets and new ways on how to learn how to be a teacher/professor. The approach, of a qualitative point of view, works with content analysis to capture the new emergent from teachers shared experiences. To come up these goals, the study brings up some reflections for the professors on the necessary knowledge for a pedagogical action, sharing experiences and aiming solutions for educative actions. Having as context nowadays technology, it is verified how a virtual environment may provide appropriation and expansion of pedagogical knowledge and, at the same time, the possibility for the professors to be mediators and mediated in a collaborative process in Superior Education. Though, RADEP is seen as an informational instrument that may provide shared pedagogical knowledge construction. Findings indicate that this kind of knowledge involves, systemically, several categories: pedagogical anguish, passivity related to formation, resistance in sharing knowledge, self-development and transformation.