A AUTONOMIA DO ALUNO NO CURSO DE LICENCIATURA EM FÍSICA À DISTÂNCIA DO CONSÓRCIO SETENTRIONAL UFG-UEG-UCG

Abstract

The objective of this thesis was to identify whether students in the Bachelor's Degree in Physics Distance Learning Consortium Northern UFG-UEG-UCG (LICFIS) are encouraged to develop skills and attitudes necessary for independent learning. In the first chapter presents a brief history and models of Distance Education (EAD), highlighting the role of autonomy in this type of teaching and learning. These topics are discussed in light of Almeida (2003), Belloni (2002), Maia and Mattar (2007), Moore and Kearsley (2008), Peters (2004, 2006) Pretto (2001, 2002, 2003, 2008) Pretto and Shrike (2005), Santos (2005) and Silva (2000, 2003). The second chapter discusses learner autonomy in distance education and ICT can foster the development of autonomy. The third chapter presents the empirical research of what was basically an exploratory observation of the virtual environment of the course "Psychology of Education" conducted between 2008 and 2009, for (42) forty-two students from the poles and Luziânia Quirinópolis (Goiás)'s Degree in Physics Distance Learning Consortium Northern UFG-UEG-SCU. The informational and technical dimensions of autonomy (Preti, 2005) were adopted as analytical categories. It was also a questionnaire with the teacher educator and the academic advisor of that discipline. Data indicate that in the course on screen, there are some mechanisms that stimulated the development of the autonomy of the students who stayed the course, but apparently not have prevented the escape.