A práxis libertadora e a apropriação das novas tecnologias no fazer docente da rede pública paulista

Abstract

This research is based on the analysis of perceptions of public school teachers from the São Paulo school system in reference to the use of the new information and communication technologies in their teaching practice. Despite the importance of the continuing education projects offered by the São Paulo Secretary of Education for their public school teachers to appropriate these technologies, as well as the demands from the school community and contemporary society, unfortunately, this appropriation is not a reality within the set of schools in the public system. The initial hypothesis was founded on the large number of teachers who participated, and are participating in, the continuing education programs being offered. Over the course of the development of this qualitative research study, it became apparent that the participation in these programs was not sufficient to motivate some teachers to take the risk of breaking longstanding routines in order to incorporate the new technologies into their pedagogic practice. The study focused primarily on those teachers who have incorporated the new technologies into their daily teaching practice in an effort to identify the significance attributed to the technology by the teachers in their pedagogic actions. The result of the research shows that the necessary condition for the teacher s appropriation of the new technologies resides in his/her perception that these technologies contribute to personal emancipation. The contribution of this research study can be found in the presentation of the teacher as an intellectual advocate for the empowerment of subordinate groups which flock through the State public school system and who, looking at this situation, consider the new information and communication technologies, and in particular, the computer, to be indispensable tools in the construction of their autonomy