Desenvolvimento da competência digital na formação inicial de professores: análise no curso de pedagogia da Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Abstract

The globalisation process in which we currently live changes the way we socially relate. The use of the so-called Digital Technologies of Information and Communication (DTIC) is present in various social spheres, and it is not different when it comes to the educational field. However, the use of the DTIC in school contexts is considered a great challenge in this century, since only to insert it in the educational spaces is not enough, it is necessary, at the same time, to recognize them as pedagogical tools that amplify the teaching practice. Similarly, although it has different concepts, the Digital Competence (DC) is considered as a crucial condition to achieve success in the process of usage of ICT, especially in regard to the educational setting. Such competence is considered by the Council and European Parliament (2018; 2006) as one of the eight essential competencies for human development throughout life. In Brazil, it appears as one of the ten general competencies that students should develop at the full length of their background in Basic Education, according to the Common National Curricular Base (BNCC). The question that guides our research is: how the CD is developed during the initial training of students of the traditional in-class Education course of Federal University of Alagoas? In its objectives, this study targeted to analyse how the DC was developed during the initial training process of the students of the Education Course at UFAL - campus A.C Simões - offered in the in-class modality. As specific objectives, we aimed to analyse normative and basic documents that guide the teaching of basic education and teacher training in Brazil in relation to the development of DC; to investigate the incorporation of DC in the curricular components of the Education Course at UFAL; to study the concept of Digital Competence, both in the educational context and in the conception of students from the last periods of the UFAL Education Course; and to investigate how the Education Course at UFAL - Campus A. C. Simões contributes to the development of DC of these students. This research is framed in a qualitative approach and the case study as a methodological path. For the data collection process, we used a questionnaire ('paper' and 'digital'), semi-structured interviews and an analysis of documents related to the course syllabus of the Education Course of UFAL. As a matter of fact, the results show that the students know little about CD and that the development of this competence in the initial training of the educationalist happened in a limited way, being reduced only to the subjects of the course syllabus, even considering the great deal of teaching resources based on the use of ICT during the pandemic period.