Robótica educacional: um estado do conhecimento da Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações.

Abstract

The present work has as its research object educational robotics, delimiting itself to elementary school. Having as research problem: What are the researches developed on Educational Robotics, published in the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in the Universities of Ceará and Paraíba. And the general objective that led this study was: To understand how research on Educational Robotics was developed, published in the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations at the Universities of Ceará and Paraíba. And as specific objectives:Present the research methodologies of the selected works; To analyze how the students' involvement in the pedagogical practices was, based on the research carried out; Discuss the possibilities of implementing pedagogical practices, in a playful way with Educational Robotics, based on the research carried out.The methodology chosen for this study was based on a documentary research, for the production of a State of Knowledge (MOROSINI; FERNANDES, 2014), study carried out in Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD). Initially, 9 works were selected, after reading the abstracts, 3 works were selected for analysis, considering the objectives proposed by this research as a parameter. From the analysis, it was possible to identify that Educational Robotics exerts on students and teachers, improving, encouraging and qualifying the learning built in the context of teaching, awakening interests and transformations hitherto unseen. And it is also important to mention that none of the research was developed in graduate programs in the area of education, therefore, it is also important that this discussion on Educational Robotics is present in graduate programs in education, as well as in the course of Pedagogy.