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SANTOS, Luciane Maria Ribeiro da Cruz  y  MARINHO, Simão Pedro P.. Social representations of basic education teachers about internet and school: a study in a UCA School in Minas Gerais. e-Curriculum [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.2, pp.718-764. ISSN 1809-3876.  https://doi.org/10.23925/1809-3876.2016v14i2p0718.

The article describes results of research aimed at identifying the social representations of “internet and school” of teachers from a school in the city of Itabira, Minas Gerais, prior to its in-service education in the “Um Computador por Aluno” Project, Projeto UCA, that could influence them. The research involved two phases. In phase 1 of the research, 34 teachers, in a total of 37, answered a self-applied questionnaire. Data collection in order to identify social representations was carried out through free evocation technique, using “internet” and “internet at school” as inductors terms. The data collected in the questionnaire were analyzed with a statistical package and the evocations identified with the software Evoc 2000. For a deepen analysis of the identified social representations, interviews were conducted with 12 teachers who agreed to participate in Phase 2 of the research. The research allowed understanding practices from the construction process of the representations in daily life and in the relations between subjects. The identified social representations collaborated to guide the process of teacher education at UCA Project. The research authors propose that in-service teacher education programs for using digital information and communication technologies I teaching and learning processes consider the representations that teachers have about them, so that it promotes adherence to the proposed training and the pedagogical innovation and fosters the construction of pedagogical and technological knowledge and the renewal of teaching practices.

Palabras clave : Social Representations; Internet and School; UCA Project.

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