Abstract

BRANDALISE, MARY ÂNGELA TEIXEIRA. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF PARANÁ: EVALUATION OF AN EDUCATIONAL POLICY IN ACTION. Educ. rev. [online]. 2019, vol.35, e206349.  Epub June 17, 2019. ISSN 1982-6621.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-4698206349.

This paper presents the partial results of an evaluative research about the education policy of Paraná, Brazil, focused on promoting the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the state public schools that have joined the project CONECTADOS, coordinated by the Policy Department and Educational Technologies of the State Secretariat of Education of Paraná (SEED-PR), in 2016. The instruments of data collection were: a) online questionnaire for school managers; b) semi-structured interview with the project coordinators at the State level. The dimensions assessed were: the ICT infrastructure in the school; participation of the management team, teachers and students; integration of ICT in pedagogical practices and the results achieved. The analysis of the empirical data based on Ball, Maguire and Braun’s (2012) polity theory in action makes it possible to infer that the schools involved started a process of integration of ICT in pedagogical practices that could support the construction of digital culture in school contexts.

Keywords : Evaluation of educational policies; Educational Technologies; Theory of polity in action; ICT in school.

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