Abstract

COLLINS, Heloisa  and  GARCIA, Ana Luiza Marcondes. Avaliação da experiência em EAD em um contexto de formação de formadores. ETD [online]. 2009, vol.10, n.02, pp.330-354. ISSN 1676-2592.

The aim of this paper is to analyze and discuss what some teachers say about a distance learning experience during a long and demanding distance teacher development process. To do this, we first present a report on the experience in the teacher development course Práticas de Leitura e Escrita na Contemporaneidade (Reading and Writing Practices in Contemporaneity); then, we offer an interpretation about a set of evaluative reports the participants made. Our aim is to argue that distance courses can be democratically beneficial to different types of students, motivating for work and study and an opportunity for the creation of rich human relations, with a high degree of proximity. The analysis of the evaluative reports makes use of theoretical tools offered by Systemic Functional Linguistics, more specifically appraisal theory (Martin; Rose, 2003). Since we make evaluations in order to tell our interlocutors about how we feel in relation to people and things, i.e., what positions we assume in relation to them, it is possible to try and map the types of evaluations that the participants make to talk about their experience, about their colleagues and about the course.

Keywords : Online Teacher Training; Assessment.

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