Ingressantes na licenciatura em pedagogia do sistema UAB/UFSCAR : quem são, o que pensam e aprendizagens iniciais

Abstract

Distance Education - DE is a type of education that eliminates communication barriers created by distance and time. Since the experiences encountered reflect the importance of a constant rethinking the type of training provided by DL courses, from professionals involved, especially when it comes to the preparation of study materials, assistance in learning to be used in Distance Education . What is proposed in this research project is to characterize students entering the first class travel distance of Pedagogy of the UAB / UFSCar, identify and analyze concepts related to different aspects of the phenomenon and its educational training processes presented by future educators before the course starts, map the initial learning, as well as difficulties and ways of coping with future educators in their first experiences with a virtual learning environment of teaching. For the analysis of the research used data from the discipline activities "Distance Learning: Tools and Technologies" of the Faculty of Education of the distance UFSCar classes the second semester of 2007 and first of 2008, the first to be offered by the course. The activities used were the initial questionnaire applied to students at the beginning of the course and reflective diary filled in virtual learning environment during the course of the discipline. To analyze the data from the questionnaire were used to question some issues and objectives of this research and the reflective diary was used to record the learning difficulties and ways of coping of 26 students selected. For the selection of students we used the following criteria: 1. Graduates of the 1st class of each regular polo 2. Daily well configured elements are present in the research question, learning difficulties and ways of coping; 3. 20% of daily chosen in item 2 of each pole of students who have authorized their publication. From an overview of concepts / information / ideas / expectations of future teachers this work explores the start of construction - a process contextualized in training for certification for teaching - the knowledge base for teaching focusing on key aspects related to education and the mode of teaching.