As tecnologias da informação e da comunicação e o ensino jurídico: análise curricular dos cursos de direito do estado de Alagoas

Abstract

Specialized literature asserts that national education is in crisis, a result of a historical process filled with political, social, and economic issues, whose reflection is experienced in the pedagogical area. Legal education in Brazil is not oblivious to this phenomenon, so its crisis can be visualized from various angles, especially with regard to the insertion of new technologies in the curricula of law courses. The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in various contexts of human life is increasingly frequent, as happens, for example, in the field of education, impacting the dissemination of knowledge and professional training. Education has undergone profound transformations resulting from technological innovations; legal education cannot ignore this phenomenon and must walk closely with social facts and advances. In this context, the problem of this research is centered on the curricula of legal courses in the state of Alagoas, especially regarding the adequacy of legal education to ICT. The research is guided by the following hypothesis: legal courses in Alagoas may not present - or present incipiently - curricular components related to ICT, which would cause professional and social consequences. Regarding the objective, it consists of analyzing, in the context of digital culture, the presence of ICT in the curricula of law courses in the state of Alagoas. The research was carried out on a methodological basis predominantly qualitative, from the epistemological framework in the empirical-analytical paradigm, with the use of the hypothetical-deductive procedure to investigate the hypothesis based on the information collected. The results consist of the nonexistence or insufficiency regarding the presence and the way ICT are being worked, so that graduation is not able to create and improve the skills and competencies necessary for the student/graduate to exercise the profession in a social context marked by new technologies.