Abstract

DUARTE, Rosália; MILLIET, Joana  and  MIGLIORA, Rita. Media education projects and practices in Rio de Janeiro’s municipal government public schools. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2019, vol.45, e202710.  Epub Oct 07, 2019. ISSN 1678-4634.  https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-4634201945202710.

Rio de Janeiro’s municipal public education network has been developing media educational practices since the years of the 1980s. The research addressed by this article had as target the analysis of features and scope of these practices and possible relations with guidelines formulated by the SMERJ (Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Education Bureau) for the sector. It was conducted, at a first stage, through questionnaires, presented to the managers of the 1009 Elementary and Middle School facilities; at a second stage, visits were held to eight schools with diversified media educational practices, with observations and interviews; finally, the analysis of documents of the SMERJ, in which proposed guidelines can be found regarding media educational practices in schools. In virtue of the extent of the data produced, the article approaches the results of questionnaires’ analysis, in connection to the documental analysis. Results indicate that the media education is present in more than 90% of the schools of the network, where content analysis practices of mass media products (audiovisual materials; online journalism texts; TV news) and, in smaller scale, of social medial network prevail. Media production, an important practice in the perspective of media education, is not very usual in schools, as well as the use of Computing and Communication Technology in pedagogical practices. Results indicate that the proposals formulated by the SMERJ for this area, in the 1990s (under the influence of the guidelines for media education, systematized by Unesco), are strongly present in school practices. However, new formulations in this field, although integrating more recent guidelines of educational policies of the Bureau, do not yet integrate the school daily routine.

Keywords : Media education; SMERJ; Educational Policies; media educational practices.

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