Mídias na escola: recursos didáticos ou fins pedagógicos nas aulas de língua portuguesa?

Abstract

Education is one of the social fields that have been modified by the presence of the media, demanding the teacher new ways of teaching, which aim the formation of critical and more demanding students before the media contents that are presented to them. For the development of criticality, however, professional training is required in theoretical and practical dimensions, recognizing that media use for education must go beyond of having them as didactic resources, conceiving them from pedagogical purposes. Thus, this monograph has two objectives: (1) Check if Portuguese Language teachers of the final years of the primary education from the public and private teaching network in Campina Grande-PB use media in the classroom and (2) If 1 is affirmative, see in which way teachers use media in their classes: as a didactic resource or with a defined pedagogical purpose. To this end, we performed a descriptive-interpretative research, whose corpus consisted of questionnaires to teachers of Portuguese Language. The study was based on authors such as Kenski (2003), Prado (2005), Coscarelli (2005), Moran (2009) and Almeida (2007). The obtained results highlight that all teachers participating in the survey said they make use of at least one of the five media focused on this work (print, television, internet, radio and audiovisual). Moreover, the results observed that both public school teachers as the private network ones use the media in a similar way, prevailing in this case, the pedagogical use.