A FORMAÇÃO POR UM FIO: o tutor na EaD no Estado do Tocantins

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: SILVA, ângela Noleto da
• Orientador(a): SOUZA, Ruth Catarina Cerqueira Ribeiro de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Educação
• Departamento: Ciências Humanas
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação a distância; tutor presencial; formação de professores; tecnologias da comunicação e informação; 1. Curso de mestrado em educação Pesquisa 2. Professores de educação Formação 3. Mestrado (educação) Pesquisa 4. Ensino a distância Tocantins [Estado].
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: distance education; presencial tutors; formation of teachers; information; communication technologies
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2057

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.