Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:31:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Valeria Faria Weckelmann.pdf: 2268361 bytes, checksum: 026cbf3153aff04991b6760c8d251e6e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-12 / The present investigation is linked to the programme of Post-Graduation in Education: Curriculum of the Pontificia Universidade Católica of São Paulo, (PUCSP), in the line of the research: New Technologies in Education . This study has, as principal objective to identify changes in the pedagogical practices of Professors, with the use of portable computers in the Brazilian and Portuguese Schools. It is searched to apprehend if the integration of the portable computer in the pedagogical practices implies in changes in the relationships between students and those with their teachers, if alterations would occur in the didactic strategies, as to identify the difficulties and contributions of the utilization of this movable device in education, seeking to find the necessary conditions so that the professors feel motivated and at ease to use this technology in their pedagogical practices. This refers to a qualitative research, to which a methodology is adopted of the research-action, beginning from the presumptions of Dewey, (1959), Sthenhouse, 1998, Elliott, (2000), and Zeichner,(2001), which developed in the process of a reciprocal collaboration between the researcher, professors and the students of the 4th year of the Portuguese and Brazilian Basic Education. For the collecting of information were adopted the following instruments registered in the newspaper of the Campo of the Researcher, questionnaire for the professors, interview semi-structured with the Professors and Students, collective interview projective and collective interview with the use of narratives with students. The analysis of the facts is based on the researches in the curriculum, of the reflexive pedagogical practices and of the integration of the curriculum and technologies, of the cooperation, Knowledge construction, of the cognitive tool and of the cycle of the actions and Spiral of the Apprenticeship. The study identifies changes in the pedagogical practices with the use of the portable computer in both contexts, as the reorganization of the management of time and of the space of the course, the horizontal part of the relationships between teachers and students, the perception of the error as the hypothesis of the reflection and the increasing of the motivation of the students. The changes evidenced in the Portuguese context were the development of the collaborative work and of the critical and reflexive thought , the initiative for the research, the digital inclusion of the families. The appearance of the digital vocabulary, the increasing of the Self-Esteem, the perception of the change of the role of the qualified personnel, motivation of the teachers, are specific changes in the Brazilian context. Identifies difficulties in both contexts as a lack of connection with the internet, need of the equipments of digital support as the interactive blackboard and multimedia projector and the fragility of the portable computer adopted. Points out difficulties in the Portuguese context as a lack of infrastructure of the local net, of the formation of the teachers and of the absence of the of the articulation between the political and administrative instances of the management of the school, and of the community, being specific difficulties of the Brazilian context, the slow operational system with the long navigation and the difficulties of the apprenticeship in the fundamentals of the Portuguese language and mathematics / A presente investigação está vinculada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação: Currículo da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo(PUC-SP) na linha de pesquisa Novas Tecnologias em Educação . Este estudo tem como objetivo principal identificar mudanças nas práticas pedagógicas de professores com o uso de computadores portáteis em escolas do Brasil e de Portugal. Procurou-se apreender se a integração do computador portátil nas práticas pedagógicas implica em mudanças no relacionamento entre alunos, e destes para com suas professoras, se ocorreram alterações nas estratégias didáticas, e identificar os aspectos que as dificultam e contribuições da utilização deste dispositivo móvel na educação, buscando constatar as condições necessárias para que os professores se sintam motivados e seguros para utilizar esta tecnologia em suas práticas pedagógicas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, para a qual se adotou a metodologia da pesquisaação a partir dos pressupostos de Dewey (1959), Sthenhouse (1998), Elliot (2000) e Zeichner (2001) que se desenvolveu em processo de recíproca colaboração entre pesquisadora, professores e alunos do 4º Ano da Educação Básica Portuguesa e Brasileira. A análise dos dados fundamentou-se nas pesquisas sobre currículo, de prática pedagógica reflexiva e de integração de currículo e tecnologias, de colaboração, construção de conhecimentos, de ferramenta cognitiva e de ciclo de ações e Espiral da Aprendizagem. O estudo identifica mudanças nas práticas pedagógicas com uso do computador portátil em ambos os contextos como a reorganização da gestão do tempo e do espaço da aula, a horizontalização das relações entre professores e alunos, a percepção do erro como hipótese de reflexão e o aumento da motivação dos alunos. As mudanças evidenciadas no contexto português foram o desenvolvimento do trabalho colaborativo e do pensamento crítico e reflexivo, a iniciativa para a pesquisa, a inclusão digital das famílias. O surgimento do vocabulário digital, o aumento da auto-estima, a percepção da mudança do papel docente, motivação dos professores são mudanças específicas do contexto brasileiro. Identifica dificuldades em ambos os contextos como falta de conexão com a internet, necessidade de equipamentos de suporte digital como lousa interativa e projetor multimídia e a fragilidade do computador portátil adotado.Aponta dificuldades no contexto português como a falta de infraestrutura da rede local, de formação de professores e da ausência da articulação entre as instâncias política, administrativa, de gestão da escola , da escola e da comunidade, sendo dificuldades específicas do contexto brasileiro, o sistema operacional lento com navegação longa, e as dificuldades de aprendizagem nos fundamentos da língua portuguesa e matemática

The master's thesis deals with the purchase decision-making process of consumers in the market of the portable computers. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the different stages of the purchase decision-making process, specify the consumers in this market and describe their buying behaviour. In the theoretical part of the thesis there are described internal and external factors affecting the buying behaviour of consumers and also the purchase decision-making process. Furthermore, the thesis describes the market of portable computers, the current situation on this market and purchase decision-making process in this market. The thesis contains primary and secondary research. Primary research involves the analysis of data obtained from a questionnaire survey conducted in the form of online surveying. Primary research is devoted to the description of the various stages of the purchase decision-making process of the defined age categories. Secondary research specifies the consumers in the market of portable computers on the basis of data from the database MML-TGI.