O uso do blog no âmbito escolar: uma investigação no Programa Educacional de Atenção ao Jovem - PEAS Juventude

Abstract

This dissertation resulted from a research developed in the Master s Program in Education at Universidade do Oeste Paulista, in the research area of Teachers Background Development and Pedagogical Practice. The blog has become relevant in the educational scenario since it furthers improvement of knowledge and is a facilitating/mediating learning resource due to the fact that it includes specific factors such as: it does not need the skill of programming language; it allows the free hosting of some sites; it has great interacting capacity concerning visitors and the person who manages it. Availing itself of its educational importance, a program proposed and coordinated by the Board of Education of Minas Gerais State, called Peas Juventude (Educational Program for Providing Care for Youth) avails itself of some blogs to make its actions public, in which each state teaching institution presents and organizes its own blog when it integrates itself into the project. The research was based on a qualitative approach showing a case study in which one aims at analyzing the Peas Juventude within one of the state teaching institutions of Minas Gerais State, thus including the dynamics of blogs as spaces for sharing ideas within society, besides systematizing the activities developed in the project and made public in the blog at issue. To collect data one also used questionnaires filled in by those participating in it and semi-structured interviews held with its coordinator Such data allowed us to conclude that the blog has indeed become an important media reporting information, communication, integration, and empowerment, earning recognition on the part of teachers and students as a means used to share knowledge and to foster interaction among those involved with it, with promising prospects for the teaching-learning process