AS TECNOLOGIAS DE INFORMAÇÃO E COMUNICAÇÃO EM LICENCIATURA INTERCULTURAL INDÍGENA: CASO DA UFG.

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education provided by the course Intercultural Education of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) using as investigative tool the case study. The methodology consisted of a documental research and data collection, from individual interviews (audio recorded) based on a semistructured questionnaire, with the coordinator and teachers working full time on the course, and evidences arisen during the research. The analysis was performed based on the Activity Theory (Leontiev) and the social knowledge construction (Vygotsky). This course lasts five years, two of them for basic formation, common to all students and three years of specific formation in one of the three knowledge areas: Language Sciences, Natural Sciences or Culture Sciences. The students enrolled in the course are indigenous from the Araguaia-Tocantins region; most of them school teachers in their villages. The analysis of the data, either collected or emerged during the research process, allows the understanding of the formation for the pedagogical use of ICT, through the development of educational actions and context in which they are established. This formation does not occur in a linear manner, because of the heterogeneity in the access to technologies in the indigenous communities, some of communities have access to high speed Internet, while others have no electricity at all. However, in the indigenous villages where Internet access is available, there is a frequent access to social medias and other Web 2.0 resources, especially when the students are not in Goiânia, nor the professors that are in indigenous lands. The social construction of knowledge made from the traditional and universal knowledge occurs in a negotiated and dialogical manner using technologies in the mediation of this knowledge and in the setting of social learning spaces, creating a favorable learning environment. It was found that the use of ICT in the educational process implies the inclusion of such resources as a knowledge object and as a teaching tool and create the foundation for the indigenous teacher to appropriate these technologies and to use them in different contexts in the educational activity. These technologies contribute to the digital and social inclusion of indigenous communities, as they facilitate the dissemination of their culture and enables them to establish closer relations with the world outside their indigenous villages.