FROM PEN TO CURSOR: SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF LITERACY TEACHERS ABOUT THE CONTINUED TRAINING
Continuing Education; Social Representations; Information and Communication Technologies; Professional knowledge; Education.
“Pull the flowers? Who can guarantee that they will not sprout again?” The words of Tistu's Father, in the book “O Menino do Dedo Verde”, represent the object of study of this research: continued training. The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the country's education system. In this context, continuing education suddenly gained national prominence in order to prepare teachers for this new challenge. This study brings reflections with the expectation of changes in continuing education based on knowledge about the social representations of literacy teachers about the challenges faced in relation to the use and articulation of Digital Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the context of training. It is a qualitative investigation, of the participant research type, based on the phenomenological approach and in Theory of Social Representations (SRT) by Serge Moscovici (2017). Teachers and Coordinators participated in the study, working in BIA classes, working in the Regional Offices of Ceilândia, Gama, Taguatinga e Guará-DF. To generate the data, we established data triangulation from the development of an Extension course combined with documentary research and the Google Forms questionnaire. The analyzed data showed that the research subjects consider their social representations as relevant elements for possible changes in the continuing education context. With this study, we bring contributions to EAPE, presenting, in the end, as a technical product, the internal regulations and project for the implementation of NAFAL