NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS DA INFORMAÇÃO E DA COMUNICAÇÃO E EDUCAÇÃO ON LINE: UMA ABORDAGEM DISCURSIVA

Abstract

The aim of this work is to understand the meaning of the speeches made by students-professors about online education. The research was conducted through semi-guided interviews with fifteen university professors who attended the course Development of online courses using TelEduc as students. The course was delivered by Alfa (Faculdade Alves Faria) and UniEvangélica. The TelEduc is an environment of long distance education developed by the Núcleo de Informática Aplicada à Educação (Nied) and the Instituto de Computação (IC) da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). This research uses the theoretical device Speech Analysis (SA) created by the French school in order to capture the meaning of the research subjects words, taking into consideration the conditions under which those speeches were elaborated. Besides the SA, and in order to set the stage for the study object, we reviewed a few authors works which allowed us to discuss some concepts: in Castells (1999) and Schaff (1995), globalization and information society; in Laval (2004) and Delleuze (1992), capitalism and neoliberalism; in Peters (2004) and Belloni (1999), long distance education; and SA authors: Pêcheux (1999), Orlandi (1996), Roure (1996), and others. As to the objectives, the analyses have shown that the majority of interviewed students had meaning processes derived from the socialhistorical- ideological context in which they were immersed. Accordingly, they gave value to this educational modality in terms of the possibility to save time. They also had in their speeches linguistic marks which pointed toward the absence of a professor, a classmate, a classroom. Another meaning process presented by the students-professors included in this research refers to the control granted by the technological tools in online education.