O significado do fazer ciência no contexto da cultura digital emergente: um estudo em uma escola da região metropolitana de Porto Alegre participante do PROUCA

Abstract

The idea of doing science has historically been supported by an epistemological objectivity, technical and aesthetic, strongly influenced by the methods of Normal Science. In the school context, doing science is characterized by the application of pre-established itineraries and controlled in order to corroborate the concepts discussed in the classroom. Thus, the conduct of research in the classroom or the realization of projects by students favors the repetition of procedures and presentation of results, instead of building problems and experience of trial and error. Meanwhile, some government initiatives have emerged to modernize schools through the insertion of digital technologies, indicating apolicy that starts to consider the school as a venue for the dissemination of digital culture and cyberculture. Some schools have joined the government projects that have this purpose, such as the Programa Um Computador por Aluno (PROUCA), which has made available to participating institutions internet connection and educational laptops for students and teachers, as well as training courses in the use ofeducational technologies digital. Digital culture is characterized by socio-cognitive schemes that are based on the release of the pole of the issue, the network connectivity and the reconfiguration of practices and knowledge. This last feature was the object of study of this work, which studied the paradigms that guide the pedagogical action in relation to doing science before and after the arrival of laptops in a municipal school in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre. From authors such as Levy (1999), Lemos (2009), Maturana and Varella (1995) and Tardif (2002), this dissertation analyzed the reconfiguration of knowledge and practices operated by these teachers trying to integrate their lessons laptop science. Based on the ideas of these authors discusses the meanings that underpin doing science in the school context and possible changes resulting from the emergence of a digital culture in a school that is taking mode 1 for 1 (one computer per student). Establishes a critical dialogue about the emergence of digital culture regarding the modernization of teaching practices in schools, especially those that deal more directly than do science in various fields of knowledge. Based on this dialogue, provides theoretical support in order to enrich the educational experience of students and elementary school teachers in order to encourage the production of new meanings to do science and the schooling process in the context of an emerging digital culture.