A formação contínua em tecnologias da informação e comunicação e as práticas pedagógicas dos educadores de infância.
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2013
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Universidade Portucalense
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Portuguese
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As Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação estão presentes atualmente
em todos os contextos. A sensibilização permanente para a sua utilização e
integração em contexto escolar, levou-nos a questionar o domínio das TIC, das
competências, do contributo da formação contínua, das possibilidades e dos
constrangimentos dos Educadores de Infância no seu palco de atuação
profissional e pessoal.
Os objetivos deste estudo são: 1) conhecer as competências dos
educadores sobre os modos de utilização das TIC em contexto de sala de
atividades; 2) identificar o contributo da formação contínua em TIC na mudança
das práticas dos educadores enquanto formandos; 3) conhecer as possibilidades
e os constrangimentos do uso das TIC nas atividades educativas do pré-escolar.
No sentido de encontrar respostas às nossas questões de investigação: 1)
Quais são os recursos tecnológicos/educativos utilizados na prática educativa em
contexto de sala de atividades?; 2) Que mudanças poderão ocorrer nas práticas
pedagógicas com a utilização das TIC impulsionadas pela formação contínua?; 3)
Quais as possibilidades e os constrangimentos dos educadores de infância
quando recorrem às TIC em contexto de sala de atividades? optámos por uma
metodologia qualitativa de investigação na intenção de melhor compreender,
identificar, analisar e interpretar essas práticas, na medida que este paradigma
permite obter informações ricas e diversificadas, dos diversos acontecimentos e
nas situações em que ocorreram. Para a recolha de dados utilizámos, para além
da entrevista semiestruturada, o inquérito por questionário, a observação de aulas
e as notas de campo, tratando esses dados pela estatística simples e pela técnica
de análise de conteúdo.
Os resultados a que chegamos evidenciam, por um lado, a existência de
alguns recursos nas salas de atividades, mas por outro lado, a sua utilização,
muitas vezes, é feita de forma isolada, como mais uma ferramenta lúdica.
As crianças, enquanto “nativos digitais”, desenvolvem uma forte
componente de autonomia, partilha e de entreajuda ao interagirem com as
Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação, mas necessitam de uma mediação
pedagógica integradora e orientada para a aquisição de conhecimentos e o
desenvolvimento de capacidades e da literacia digital. Percecionamos que uma formação de modelo construtivista com exemplos concretos da utilização de
recursos e ferramentas pode ter um papel muito importante para a mudança na
prática de ensino-aprendizagem com recurso às tecnologias no Jardim de
Infância.
A formação deve, portanto, incidir não só sobre a utilização da tecnologia,
mas sobre a sua integração pedagógica na sala de atividades em articulação com
as orientações curriculares que, ao mesmo tempo, aproximem as crianças ao
mundo do conhecimento digital.
Information and Communications Technologies are currently present in all contexts. The permanent awareness for ICT use and their integration in schools programs lead us to question the setting in which preschool educators perform both at a professional and a personal level, and to investigate how ICT are used and what the contribution of continuing education and the skills and constraints of the educators themselves really are. The objectives of this study are: 1) to learn the skills educators have on how to use ICT in the activity room, 2) to identify the contribution of ICT training in changing practices of teachers as learners, 3) to find out what the possibilities and constraints of the use of ICT in preschool educational activities really are. In order to find answers to our research questions — 1) Which technological /educational resources are used in the educational practice in an activities room context?; 2) What changes may occur in pedagogical practices by the use of ICT driven by continuing training?; 3) What are the possibilities and constraints of early childhood educators in their use of ICT in an activities room context? — we opted for a qualitative research methodology with the intention of better understanding, identifying, analyzing and interpreting these practices, because we find this paradigm enabled us to gather rich and diverse information about various events and the circumstances in which they occurred. For data collection we used, in addition to the semistructured interview, the questionnaire survey, classroom observation and field notes, having processed these data afterwards by means of simple statistical technique and content analysis. The results we arrived at show that a certain number of technological/ educational resources do exist in most preschool activities rooms, but that they are often used on their own, as other playful tools. Children, as “digital natives”, do develop strong autonomy, sharing and mutual support senses when interacting with Information and Communications Technologies, but also require an integrative pedagogical mediation oriented for knowledge acquisition and for skill development and digital literacy. We noticed that a constructivist training model, including real examples of how to use resources and tools, can have a very important role in preschool practice changes on teaching and learning using ICT. Training should, therefore, focus not only on the use of technology, but also on their pedagogical integration in the Kindergarten activities room, in conjunction with curriculum guidelines that, at the same time, may help children to get closer to the world of digital knowledge.
Information and Communications Technologies are currently present in all contexts. The permanent awareness for ICT use and their integration in schools programs lead us to question the setting in which preschool educators perform both at a professional and a personal level, and to investigate how ICT are used and what the contribution of continuing education and the skills and constraints of the educators themselves really are. The objectives of this study are: 1) to learn the skills educators have on how to use ICT in the activity room, 2) to identify the contribution of ICT training in changing practices of teachers as learners, 3) to find out what the possibilities and constraints of the use of ICT in preschool educational activities really are. In order to find answers to our research questions — 1) Which technological /educational resources are used in the educational practice in an activities room context?; 2) What changes may occur in pedagogical practices by the use of ICT driven by continuing training?; 3) What are the possibilities and constraints of early childhood educators in their use of ICT in an activities room context? — we opted for a qualitative research methodology with the intention of better understanding, identifying, analyzing and interpreting these practices, because we find this paradigm enabled us to gather rich and diverse information about various events and the circumstances in which they occurred. For data collection we used, in addition to the semistructured interview, the questionnaire survey, classroom observation and field notes, having processed these data afterwards by means of simple statistical technique and content analysis. The results we arrived at show that a certain number of technological/ educational resources do exist in most preschool activities rooms, but that they are often used on their own, as other playful tools. Children, as “digital natives”, do develop strong autonomy, sharing and mutual support senses when interacting with Information and Communications Technologies, but also require an integrative pedagogical mediation oriented for knowledge acquisition and for skill development and digital literacy. We noticed that a constructivist training model, including real examples of how to use resources and tools, can have a very important role in preschool practice changes on teaching and learning using ICT. Training should, therefore, focus not only on the use of technology, but also on their pedagogical integration in the Kindergarten activities room, in conjunction with curriculum guidelines that, at the same time, may help children to get closer to the world of digital knowledge.
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Formação contínua, Educadores de infância, Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação, Continuing education, Early childhood Educators, Information Technology and Communication
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Carqueja, P.M.O. (2013). A formação contínua em tecnologias da informação e comunicação e as práticas pedagógicas dos educadores de infância. (Tese de doutoramento), Universidade Portucalense, Portugal. Disponível no Repositório UPT, http://hdl.handle.net/11328/928.
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Orientação: Prof. Doutora Maria de Lurdes Jesus de Lima e Prof. Doutora Angélica Maria Reis Monteiro.