DISCURSOS PEDAGÓGICOS SOBRE OS USOS DO COMPUTADOR NA EDUCAÇÃO ESCOLAR (1997-2007)

Abstract

This study aimed to present a thematic analysis and theoretical state of the art made about the uses of computers in school education in the period 1997 to 2007 in productions scientific journals published in national and international level as well as the Working Group on Education and Communication from the National Association of Postgraduate and Research in Education (ANPEd). Thus, a search that was guided proposed, essentially, the following question: "What theoretical guidance guide the pedagogical discourse in this scientific articles on uses of computer in school?". Based on this assumption, there was a literature search of character executrix, with thematic balance of production and found 107 work related to the subject of the investigation and, furthermore, 1330 authors referenced in these studies. considers that the theoretical contribution to subsidize the path of the research methodology was based on texts by Soares (1989), Warde (1993), Deslandes (1994), Tiballi (1998), Ferreira (2002), Eco (2005), Franco ( 2005), Bardin (2006), Triviños (2006) and Barreto (2006). The body indicated the establishment of two broad categories, namely: "The computer as a teaching" and "The computer as a theoretical discussion in the context of society and education." It is here that the studies are considered direct in their vast majority, more to the theme of the distance education and to the issues of use of computers in the teaching and learning process. The main theoretical references identified in studies about education and technology are based on the following authors: Pierre Lévy, Paulo Freire, Lev S. Vygostky and Manuel Castells.