As representações sociais de licenciandos sobre a educação à distância: o caso da UFRN

Abstract

In this dissertation we aim to analyze the social representations of student of distance courses, of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), on distance education. For the understanding of the object of study, we opted the theoretical foundation of the Theory of Social Representations of Moscovici (1978; 2003; 2012) and we used as research instruments the Technique of Free Association of Words, semi-open questionnaires electronic by means Google Docs and semi-strutured interviews recorded by means of a smartphone and application use Automatic Call Recorder, (call recorder) with those involved in the undergraduate courses at a distance, student of the Polo Classroom Support of Currais Novos (RN) of the UFRN. In terms of the analysis of these data, we employ the content analysis of Bardin (2011). The results show that the social representation of EaD built by participating student has two faces, what are: as area of desire is part of a selection moved by the possibility of flexibility in the studies; as a learning environment for innovative, differentiated, accept, among other factors, a professional qualification through of the adaptation to new situations, of the commitment, of the discipline And the effort of the students in question. Moreover, we see that the studant if anchor in the space-time-to-face (Polo Classroom Support, Distance Education Secretariat, Federal University of the Rio Grande do Norte, etc.) and/or in the space-time-virtual (Virtual Learning Environment, digital social networks, etc.) and on the coexistence of these means to build this social representation. We realized yet that, the new technological tools (computer, Internet, moodle), are taken as facilitators of the formation teacher and the constitution of social representations.