Direito à palavra: implantação da política pública de educomunicação na Secretaria Estadual de Educação de Mato Grosso (SEDUC/MT)

Abstract

This Master's thesis in Social Sciences investigated the implementation of na educommunication policy in the public school sistem in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The empirical question served to assess the conditions of possibility in favor of a more humanized education, to be carried out for the purposes of educommunication. Educommunication is understood in the interface between education and communication, as a necessary dialogue between digital technologies, the production of knowledge and information and the strengthening of interperson alrelationships. It investigated the potential of educommunication when locally institutionalized as a public educational policy. The research also reflected on the role ofeducation in the formation of participatory citizens who are aware of their responsibility as agents of social transformation, capable of combating disinformation and capable of critically reading the media. A bibliographic review was carried out on the central theme, education and public policies, which allowed the presentation of concepts in their production contexts. The methodological strategy consisted of interviews and questionnaires to Access the emergency conditions and implementation of the law, analyzed through representations of teachers of the basic education sistem in the State of Mato Grosso. It was concluded that educommunication practices have their mobilizing Power strengthened by the potential of educommunication and the entire history that constituted it. Institutionalizing it through a Law, legitimizes the public debate and empowers it as na educational public policy in formal education, so that teachers take ownership of educommunication practices no longer as a mere instrumental resource, but understanding its wealth. It is necessary to continue educommunicating so that the achievements and the accumulation of knowledge during its institutionalization are notwasted.