A FORMAÇÃO POR UM FIO: o tutor na EaD no Estado do Tocantins
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2009-08-20
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This study entitled Formation along a line: Distance Education Tutors in the Tocantins State
is the result of an analysis undertaken as part of the Master in Education program linked to the
line of research: Teacher formation and professionalization at the Universidade Federal de
Goiás Education Faculty. The aim of the study was to discuss and understand who these
subjects called tutors are, working in the formation of pedagogues in the distance education
modality in the Tocantins State. It starts from the principle that the relationships established
between education, work and technology, especially those which occurred in the final decades
of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, have produced changes in all sectors of society.
This is especially so in the field of policy on the formation of educational personnel and in
order to do so mass certification has been encouraged as well as the ample expansion of
distance education as a modality for providing undergraduate Higher Education Courses. The
theoretical references used were those of Castells (2001), Ianni (1999, 2000), Antunes (1992,
2003), Barreto (2001, 2003, 2008), Belloni (2001), Chauí (1999, 2001) Frigotto (2003, 2007)
Kenski (2007, 2008), Kuenzer (1999, 2007), Marx and Engels (1983), Marcuse (1973), and
others. The research infers the recovery of historical aspects which consolidate the
restructuring of the capitalist mode of production and the understanding that an information
society is coming about, supported by technological advances and their application mainly in
the fields of the economics, communication, politics, education and labor. For this reason, an
empirical research with a qualitative approach was undertaken. It was understood as a case
study in which semi-structured interviews were used as a means to collect data.
Questionnaires were applied and observation and documental analysis was undertaken.
Classroom assistants working in the municipality of Araguaína, Tocantins, and doing tutorial
work in the teleclassrooms of the Pedagogy Course offered in partnership by the Fundação
Universidade do Tocantins ( UNITINS) and the EADCON company; students regularly
enrolled in the 3rd and 5th periods of the Pedagogy Course during the first semester of 2008
and the administrative coordinator of the Course all these participated in the research as
subjects. The results would point to the fact that the subjects carry out a function which does
not characterize them as tutors; it shows that the model of Distance Education being
undertaken there does not correspond to the model proposed in the documentation; the
precariousness, the poor objective working conditions and the depreciation of the
professionals directly involved in the formation of future teachers, reaffirm the process of
social disparagement and proletarianization of the work of teaching in the issue of distance
education. The results also draw attention to the social function of education and the
university between education, work and information and communication technologies in
which new educational actors, in this case, the tutors, suggest studies which would lead to a
reflection on the relationship between formation and the work of teaching in distance
education.
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Educação a distância , tutor presencial , formação de professores , tecnologias da comunicação e informação , distance education , presencial tutors , formation of teachers , information , communication technologies , 1. Curso de mestrado em educação Pesquisa 2. Professores de educação Formação 3. Mestrado (educação)
Pesquisa 4. Ensino a distância Tocantins [Estado].
Citação
SILVA, ângela Noleto da. Formation along a line: Distance Education Tutors in the Tocantins State. 2009. 149 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Humanas) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2009.