Formação continuada em mídias na educação: um estudo sobre as contribuições do programa na perspectiva dos egressos

Abstract

This study analyzes the contribution of the specialization in Media in Education, offered in the state of Sergipe, and was subject twenty-three teachers from first class training and conclusive that they develop their activities in public schools located in different cities in Sergipe. This is a qualitative study with a case study approach, which used as instruments of data collection: desk research, questionnaire and semistructured interviews. For the treatment of data was performed content analysis that allowed data to be grouped into four categories: continuing education teacher; difficulties presented in the course of training, changes in teaching practice; skills to deal with ICT. This design aims to answer the central question of this study: how teachers who completed the course of Specialization in Media in Education, the State of Sergipe, realize the contributions of this training to their practice? In this sense, the general objective was to investigate how teachers graduating the first class of Specialization in Media in Education, the state of Sergipe, realize the contributions of this training in their teaching. The testimony of teachers allowed to emphasize positive and negative aspects of the training study, which may be considered in times of restructuring or new offerings, since the data emphasize the continuing education of teachers as a prerequisite for such integration is not a set mere transposition of old practices, with veneer of modernity. The study points to an attempt incipient change in teaching practice and the incorporation of media resources available in an effort to promote new forms of teaching and learning, and proves that the course contributed to a change in teachers' practice, as well as confirming the belief that continuing education courses for teachers, as well as necessary, should be offered regularly.