Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2018-08-15T13:12:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 anapaularodriguesgravinaalmeida.pdf: 52605403 bytes, checksum: 22a27844acc9a657af2a46468134baad (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-08-16T10:54:53Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 anapaularodriguesgravinaalmeida.pdf: 52605403 bytes, checksum: 22a27844acc9a657af2a46468134baad (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T10:54:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 anapaularodriguesgravinaalmeida.pdf: 52605403 bytes, checksum: 22a27844acc9a657af2a46468134baad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-05 / O presente trabalho - um Estudo de Caso de natureza participativa e interventiva definido como Pesquisa-ação (MORIN, 2004) - tem como meta central a construção de um Ambiente Aprendizagem em sala de aula de Língua Portuguesa. O cenário investigativo é uma sala de aula de 9o ano do ensino fundamental da Educação de Jovens e Adultos- EJA - 23 alunos com idade entre 17 e 55 anos - de uma escola pública municipal de Muriaé, MG. Conflitos de interesse entre gerações, desrespeito, desorganização e apatia demarcavam o ambiente desta sala de aula, dificultando ou impedindo a aprendizagem, o que levou à definição da questão deste estudo. Norteada pelas categorias Protagonismo discente, Autoria e Autoridade Docente, Modelagem e Redes de Cooperação, este estudo integra-se ao macroprojeto “Ensino de Língua Portuguesa- da Formação docente à sala de aula” (MIRANDA, 2014, FAPEMIG CHE APQ 02584/14), assumindo sua matriz teórico-metodológica e modelos de ações interventivas. Três etapas de ação foram propostas: etapas diagnóstica inicial, interventiva, diagnóstica e avaliativa final. As ações diagnósticas envolveram a aplicação de dois instrumentos investigativos voltados para os alunos: um questionário semiaberto recortando o perfil socioeconômico e cultural, aplicado no início do projeto e o Relato de Práticas, sendo que um foi coletado no início e outro, com um ajuste de conteúdo, no final do projeto. Para a análise diagnóstica comparativa dos dois Relatos discentes foi utilizada a Semântica de Frames (FILLMORE, 2009 [1982]; SALOMÃO, 2009) e seu projeto lexicográfico Framenet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal). Os resultados desta análise semântica foram submetidos a uma leitura interpretativa interdisciplinar de modo a se construírem indicadores da perspectiva discente sobre o ensino de Língua Portuguesa antes e após a aplicação do projeto. A etapa interventiva, acompanhada por registros de diários de bordo docente e discente, foi organizada em três projetos: Projeto 1: Construindo um ambiente de aprendizagem através do ensino de Língua Portuguesa - a produção do gênero Debate Regrado; Projeto 2: Buscando a voz do aluno e conhecendo os pontos de vista – do tribunal à produção do gênero Artigo de Opinião e Projeto 3: Dando ao público seus saberes e opiniões – a produção do gênero Seminário. Essas ações interventivas foram sustentadas por uma concepção interacionista da linguagem e envolveram toda a prática cotidiana de ensino de língua Portuguesa do docente- pesquisador – leitura, escrita, oralidade e reflexão linguística - durante o ano letivo de 2017. Os resultados finais alcançados mostram que o fortalecimento do protagonismo dos alunos e da rede de colaboração entre eles modificou o ambiente, tornando-o propício ao ensino- aprendizagem da Língua Portuguesa. Seguindo o modelo desenvolvido para os Trabalhos de Conclusão Final do PROFLTRAS/UFJF, este estudo tem como produto um Caderno Pedagógico digital e interativo acompanhado de um documento dissertativo. / The present work - a case study of participatory and interventional nature defined as Action Research (MORIN, 2004) - has as its central goal the construction of a Learning Environment in a Portuguese Language classroom. The investigative scenario is a 9th grade classroom of the Education of Youth and Adults - EJA - 23 students aged between 17 and 55 years old - from a municipal public school in Muriaé, MG. Conflicts of interest between generations, disrespect, disorganization and apathy demarcated the environment of this classroom, hindering or impeding learning, which led to the definition of the issue of this study. This study is part of the macroproject "Portuguese Language Teaching - from Teacher Training to theClassroom" (MIRANDA, 2014, FAPEMIG CHE APQ 02584/14), assuming its theoretical-methodological matrix and models of intervention actions. Three stages of action were proposed: an initial diagnostic, an intervention, a final diagnostic and the final evaluational steps. The diagnostic actions involved the application of two investigative instruments aimed at the students: a semiabalized questionnaire cutting the socioeconomic and cultural profile, applied at the beginning of the project and the Report of Practices, one of which was collected at the beginning and another, with an adjustment of content at the end of the project. For the comparative diagnostic analysis of the two Student reports, Framing Semantics (FILLMORE, 2009 [1982] and SALOMÃO, 2009) and its Framenet lexicographic project (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal) were used. The results of this semantic analysis were submitted to an interdisciplinary interpretive reading in order to construct indicators of the student perspective on Portuguese language teaching before and after the application of the project. The intervention stage, accompanied by records of teachers (and students) logbooks, was organized into three projects: Project 1: Building a learning environment through Portuguese language teaching - the production of the Dogmatized Debate genre; Project 2: Looking for the student's voice and getting to know their points of view - from the court to the production of the Opinion Article genre and Project 3: Giving the public their knowledge and opinions - the production of the Seminary genre. These interventive actions were supported by an interactionist conception of language and involved the daily teaching practice of Portuguese teacher-researcher - reading, writing, speaking and linguistic reflection - during the academic year of 2017. The final results achieved show that strengthening the protagonism of the students and the collaboration network between them modified the environment, making it conducive to teaching-learning Portuguese. Following the model developed for the Final Conclusion of PROFLETRAS / UFJF, this study has as a product a digital and interactive Pedagogical Notebook accompanied by a dissertation document.

We investigated the hypermediatic integration of free information and communication technology in study activities, mediated by Free Virtual Teaching and Learning Environment, more specifically Moodle, in a course at the Federal University of Santa Maria. Our goal was to identify the advances and challenges of this integration in teaching and learning mediated by Moodle, in order to bring contributions to the educational process. Thus, we use the concept of educational action research, which involved a retrospective movement (questioning and reflective understanding of practice) and prospective (planning of new actions guided by the results already shown). In this work, we have also taken the methodological guidance of three matrices: Problem-Dialog Matrix (PDM), Thematic-Organizing Matrix (TOM) and Thematic-Analytical Matrix (TAM), which were organized respectively in three stages of spiral-cycles: thematic concern, organization and analysis. Study activities, dialog applied to problem-searching, educational hypermedia and cognitive flexibility were concepts that guided the development of hypermediatic study activities. Then, we conclude that the study activities organized in hypermediatic mode, mediated by Moodle, from a socio-constructivist, problem-dialog and Cognitive Flexibility Theory perspective, present a great scholar potential for the critical appropriation of scientific knowledge in relation to different contexts of reality. / Investigamos a integração hipermidiática das Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação livres nas atividades de estudo, mediadas por Ambiente Virtual de Ensino-Aprendizagem Livre, mais especificamente pelo Moodle, em um curso presencial da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Nosso objetivo foi detectar quais avanços e desafios dessa integração no ensino-aprendizagem mediado pelo Moodle, a fim de trazer contribuições para o processo educacional. Para isso, empregamos a concepção de trabalho de pesquisa denominada investigação-ação educacional, o que envolveu um movimento retrospectivo (problematização e compreensão reflexiva da prática) e prospectivo (planejamento de novas ações orientado pelos resultados já evidenciados). Nesse trabalho, também adotamos a orientação metodológica de três matrizes: Matriz Dialógico-Problematizadora (MDP), Matriz Temático-Organizadora (MTO), e Matriz Temático-Analítica (MTA), que foram organizadas respectivamente em três etapas dos ciclos-espiralados: preocupação temática, organização e análise. Os conceitos atividades de estudo, diálogoproblematizador, hipermídia educacional e flexibilidade cognitiva guiaram o desenvolvimento das atividades de estudo hipermidiática. Ao final desse percurso investigativo, concluímos que as atividades de estudo organizadas de modo hipermidiático e dialógico-problematizador, mediadas pelo Moodle, na perspectiva sócio-construtivista e da Teoria da Flexibilidade Cognitiva, apresentam grande potencial escolar para a apropriação crítica do conhecimento científico face aos diversos contextos da realidade.

What are the modern architectural trends in foreign and domestic learning enviroments? That is the main question of this thesis that is trying to merge both architectural and pedagogical points of view. Even though this topic is becoming more and more actual, it can still be hardly found in czech literature. This thesis analyses new trends in school projects and how they align to the schools educational concept. The theoretical part explains the terms of educational enviroments, educational concept and shows the main architectural trends in school designs. The analytical part presents ten foreign schools looking into the alignment between architectural concept and educational concept. In the research section nine recently built school projects are presented, eight czech and one austrian primary schools are investigated via interviews and observations. The research comes to a conclusion that according to the new changing educational reguirements, most of the examined school projects implements some new features like relaxation places for pupils and places for improving students social and personal skills. Just few of the examined architectural projects are taking into consideration the educational concept, mostly it is the educational concept that is subordinated to the school building project....

Abstract The study describes and analyses the implementation and development of the real-life-oriented pedagogical action process as a method of work to intervene in exclusion from education from the viewpoints of the teacher, pupils and various interest groups. The actual group of subjects consisted of 74 Oulu pupils in the Tuomontupa class in the years 1992–1998. The pupils aged 15 to 17 had dropped out or were about to do so and had been moved to a special class for education for the maladjusted. 23 of the students were girls and 51 were boys. The number of boys was more than double that of girls. The research site was the Tuomontupa class that functioned in a learning environment that was not school-like in the town's work training centre. The actual purpose of the study was to describe the RLO pedagogical action process implemented in special class teaching among young people aged 15–17 who were threatened by exclusion from education. In addition to this, the realization and development of real-life-oriented pedagogical action in the case of young people near exclusion was also studied. From the theoretical and educational philosophical points of view, the research analysed the connections of the real-life-oriented pedagogical action process to social pedagogical thinking and tradition of action and to reform pedagogy. The study was carried out as a social pedagogical action study in which the data was gathered using various research methods. The methods included ethnographic observation and interpretation as well as social pedagogical participatory action research. Field data consisted of interview data, pupil transfer documents and other documents, participatory observation, pupils' essays, meeting memoranda and comparative statistical data on the pupils' school performance. Triangulation was used in an attempt to observe the research object in a comprehensive manner. The research results show that a real-life-oriented pedagogical action process can have an impact on young people's exclusion from education. The real-life-oriented process helped to produce educational and pedagogical experiences that were felt to be positive by the young people, reinforcing the subjects' ability to think and act in the same way in similar situations in the future. The pupils' absences were reduced remarkably, and their grade averages improved. 63 pupils out of 74 in the research sample managed to complete the targets set for lower secondary education in one year, while 11 needed a longer time to complete school. Out of the 63 pupils who completed lower secondary education, 46 or 73% were subsequently selected to a senior secondary program. The research data also reveals the three critical phases when to intervene in exclusion from education. The first critical phase was attachment to education, while the second phase was the corrective phase and the third phase was constituted by the linking phase. It was also possible to fail in any of these phases of intervention. The research showed that it is possible to intervene in exclusion from education, and it does not require an enormous amount of special resources, provided that the various administrative units are called together to co-operate in a tangible way. Pupils in need of special support need flexible, comprehensive and individual opportunities to meet the school's requirements. Diversified and developing special class teaching still has a well-justified position in this work as one of the ways in which the school works. The study shows that a comprehensive real-life-oriented pedagogical action process is connected with social pedagogical working practices as a form of interventive action against exclusion from education. / Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksessa kuvataan ja analysoidaan reaalipedagogisen toimintaprosessin toteutumista ja kehitystä koulutukselliseen syrjäytymiseen puuttuvana interventiivisena työmuotona tarkasteltuna opettajan, oppilaiden ja eri sidosryhmien näkökulmista. Tutkimuksen varsinaisen kohderyhmän muodosti 74 oululaista, Tuomontupa-luokkaa vuosina 1992–1998 käynyttä oppilasta. Oppilaat olivat 15–17-vuotiaita, koulunsa keskeyttäneitä tai keskeyttämässä olevia nuoria, jotka oli siirretty erityisluokalle sopeutumattomien opetukseen. Oppilaista oli tyttöjä 23 ja poikia 51. Poikien määrä oli yli kaksinkertainen verrattuna tyttöjen määrään. Tutkimuspaikan muodosti Tuomontupa-luokka, joka toimi kaupungin työvalmennuskeskuksessa, ei koulumaisessa opiskeluympäristössä. Tutkimuksen varsinaisena tehtävänä oli kuvata koulutuksesta syrjäytymässä olevien 15–17-vuotiaiden nuorten erityisluokkaopetuksessa toteutettua reaalipedagogista toimintaprosessia. Tämän lisäksi tutkittiin reaalipedagogisen toiminnan toteutumista ja kehittymistä koulutuksesta syrjäytymässä olevien nuorten kohdalla. Teoreettisesti ja kasvatusfilosofisesti ajateltuna tutkimuksessa jäsennettiin reaalipedagogisen toimintaprosessin yhteyttä sosiaalipedagogiseen ajatteluun ja toimintaperinteeseen sekä reformipedagogiikkaan. Tutkimus toteutettiin sosiaalipedagogisena toimintatutkimuksena, jossa käytettiin eri tutkimusmenetelmiä tiedon keruuseen. Tutkimusmetodeina käytettiin etnografista havainnointia ja tulkintaa sekä sosiaalipedagogista osallistuvaa toimintatutkimusta. Kenttämateriaali muodostui haastatteluaineistosta, oppilaiden siirtoasiakirjoista ja dokumenteista, osallistuvasta havainnoinnista, oppilaiden kirjoitelmista, kokousmuistioista ja oppilaiden koulusuoritusten tilastollisesta vertailuaineistosta. Toteutetun triangulaation avulla pyrittiin hahmottamaan kokonaisvaltaisesti tutkittavaa kohdetta. Tutkimustulokset osoittavat, että reaalipedagogisen toimintaprosessin avulla voidaan puuttua nuorten koulutukselliseen syrjäytymiseen. Reaalipedagogisen toimintaprosessin avulla luotiin nuorille myönteisiä kasvatuksellisia ja pedagogisia kokemuksia, jotka vahvistivat tutkittavien nuorten kykyä ajatella ja toimia samankaltaisissa tilanteissa tulevaisuudessa samoin. Oppilaiden poissaolot vähenivät merkittävästi ja keskiarvot paranivat. Tutkimusaineiston oppilaista 63 oppilasta 74:stä pystyi yhden vuoden aikana suoriutumaan peruskoulun oppitavoitteista ja 11 tarvitsi pitemmän ajan koulusta suoriutumiseen. Peruskoulunsa suorittaneista 63 oppilaasta pääsi jatkokoulutukseen 46 eli 73 %. Tutkimusaineisto osoittaa myös koulutuksellisen syrjäytymisen intervention kolme kriittistä vaihetta. Ensimmäisen kriittisen vaiheen muodosti koulutukseen kiinnittämisvaihe, toisen kriittisen vaiheen muodosti korjaava vaihe ja kolmannen kriittisen vaiheen muodosti niveltämisvaihe. Kaikissa edellisissä intervention vaiheissa oli myös mahdollista epäonnistua. Tutkimuksen mukaan koulutukselliseen syrjäytymiseen voidaan puuttua ja se ei vaadi suunnattomia erillisiä resursseja, kun yhdistetään eri hallintokunnat tekemään konkreettista yhteistyötä. Erityistä tukea tarvitsevat oppilaat tarvitsevat joustavia, kokonaisvaltaisia ja yksilöllisiä mahdollisuuksia suoriutua koulun tavoitteista. Tässä työssä monimuotoisella ja kehittyvällä erityisluokkaopetuksella on edelleen perusteltu sijansa koululaitoksen yhtenä toimintamuotona. Tutkimus osoittaa kokonaisvaltaisen reaalipedagogisen toimintaprosessin liittyvän sosiaalipedagogiseen työkäytäntöön koulutuksellisen syrjäytymiseen puuttuvana interventiivisenä toimintana.

Observations of young children are conducted in an educational setting by practitioners to plan and assess activities based on the individual development and needs of the child. Challenges include: recording, how to be an observer rather than a participant, and connecting developmental theory to observable behaviour.Several projects have simulated children in their learning environments, aimed mainly at pre-service teachers, but these have neither been for young children where the activity is play-based nor where the adult is supportive of the child's interests. Some simulations have used 3D graphics to represent a child via a role-playing adult but there have been few attempts to use autonomous characters.A novel real-time interactive 3D graphical simulation—Observation—was developed, providing a physical sandbox for users to: add autonomous characters (representing children), add objects, and customise the play-based environment. The definitions of the characters were informed by the findings from early childhood research. The simulation was evaluated using two complementary serious game frameworks and its utility was evaluated by professionals within the field of early childhood education comprising university students and educators, and local education authority advisors. An explorative, mixed methods approach was taken, triangulating across: a pilot study and a main study; different research instruments (simulation activity plus questionnaire, focus groups, interviews); and a range of participants. The simulation has utility because: it is an interesting way to explore the behaviours of young children, the theoretical understanding behind children's play can be deepened, and observational skills can be developed. The simulation has wide appeal because the perceived utility of the simulation is not influenced by: professional experience, number of real-life observations of young children, or time spent playing video games. Age is considered to be the most important omission from the abstract character in the simulation.

This dissertation describes research which investigated the use of communication tools in a WebCT learning environment. The instrumental case study investigated the level and frequency of use of the web-based communication tools during a full-fledged course delivery at a university that enrols only full-time students. The unit of analysis was the case and the instruments included group interviews, observation anecdotal notes, communication diaries, focus group and a journal/logbook. A mixed qualitative and quantitative research method was used in this research. The study evaluated how the interactivity and not how either the lesson or the WebCT function. The conceptual framework focused on interactivity, features of communication tools that promote interactivity, as well as the domains such as cognition, motivation and learner interface as aspects that influence the use of communication tools. Various web-based tools were used by a sample consisting of a selected small group of IT students who participated in the study. Those communication tools were used to facilitate learning in WebCT. The results showed a total of 145 interactions for the duration of ten sessions. The WebCT communication tools supported either synchronous or asynchronous communication. Communication tools were used to retrieve information and send text-based messages to lecturers and students. Interaction at different levels was evident between student and student, student and lecturer, lecturer and student, lecturer and lecturer, as well as, student and content. In addition to the WebCT communication tools, students used extra web-based communication tools, to facilitate their learning. It was concluded that with continuous advances in information and communication technology and with ever increasing student numbers at resident universities, more tertiary institutions should offer on-line courses. More communication tools should be considered on WebCT to facilitate more interactive learning. / Dissertation (MEd (Curriculum Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted

The aim of the research was to investigate the relationship between facilitation, computer software and the learner in teaching a computer-integrated lesson. South Africa has recently changed their education system from that of content-based to that of outcomes-based. With these changes came the introduction of e-Education. The Government e-Education goal is that every South African learner in the general and further education and training bands will be ICT (Information and Communication Technology) capable by 2013. Educators are expected to facilitate these classes without having being trained as facilitators in a computer environment. Most educators’ follow an instructivist mode of teaching and the researcher decided to do a case study at a school in the Western Cape to investigate the role of an educator in a computer environment. The researcher also wrote the computer-mediated software for the educator to use in his lesson. The software was written for a lesson on Physical Science which was not the field of study of the educator. The educator, however, is a computer technician. These issues raised questions as to what the methodology of teaching of this educator would be, how would the learners interact with the facilitator and the content and to what degree learning would take place with regards to transfer of skills and knowledge. From the literature survey the researcher compiled a checklist of what the role of an educator in a computer environment should be whereby the educator was assessed. A questionnaire was compiled whereby the learners evaluated the software that was used for this computer integrated lesson. The learners had to write a pre- and post-test to determine whether content was transferred in this lesson and they were asked to perform a practical experiment to determine their skills. This dissertation shows how good facilitation, coupled with pedagogically well-designed software and good learner participation leads to a successful learning community. Copyright / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted

Affective learning forms part of all kinds of educational experiences, regardless of whether the primary focus of learning is on the psychomotor or the cognitive domain. When students are exposed to these different types of educational experiences, their feelings or emotions will be stirred (Bastable 2003: 333). The aim of this study was to investigate the affective experiences of students who were enrolled for an online module, as part of their study programme. The study specifically aimed to investigate the meanings that students attached to their affective experiences during the module. The rationale of this study was based on the fact that students have affective experiences that influence their decision to persevere with a course. The purpose of this study was thus to explore and interpret the participants’ affective experiences in an online learning environment and to discover important categories of meaning (Marshall&Rossman 1999:33). The basis for the study was the fifth module of a two-year tutored master’s degree in computer-assisted education. This module, with its focus on e-learning, was presented entirely online for a period of six weeks. A game was played in cyberspace; and as the learning experiences of participants were based on surfing the Web, the game was called CyberSurfiver. In the e-learning environment, participants had to interact and communicate mainly by means of e-mail, Internet groups, and the online learning platform WebCT. Participants could also communicate synchronously by means of the Internet-based synchronous tool called Yahoo! Messenger. A qualitative approach was used for this research. A case study was chosen as a design for this study because it reflects particularistic, descriptive and heuristic characteristics. On the one hand, the case study could be related to the online culture but, on the other hand, the study aimed at interpreting meaning attached to experiences within the online culture. This study can be seen as falling within the constructivist-hermeneutic-interpretivist-qualitative paradigm. In this study, two focus group interviews were used as the principal method of data collection. The main purpose of the focus group interviews was to collect data about the affective experiences of participants. The first category identified during the data analysis and coding process of this study was called Curative Factors. The second category was called Process of Affective Development. It was concluded that the participants’ affective development could be compared to the levels of Krathwohl’s Taxonomy. The participants’ affective development were further assessed by means of a learning cycle model developed by Kort and Reilly (2002a:60-61). A third category namely <c>Inhibiting Factors was identified. The findings of this study emphasise the importance of the recognition of the holistic nature of the online students and their experiences, which imply that affective development cannot be separated from cognitive and psychomotor development. / Thesis (PhD (Curriculum Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted

Modern society is constantly changing paradigms resulting from the process of globalization and the advancement of technologies in the areas of communication and information technology. These changes give rise to a number of dilemmas for existing models in education, especially those developed for those with some limitations such as the visually impaired. The objective of this work is to propose a model of online activities for the blind using a virtual environment of inclusive learning, based on the Salmon model, as well as to propose a methodology in virtual learning environments. The proposed model is important from the point of view of inclusion, since it aims to work with the target audience of the visually impaired in the context of distance education. In order to validate the model, four distance learning courses were applied to special people (blind), using a virtual learning environment accessible called Eduquito, which was chosen because it has the 3 accessibility stamps. The model was formalized through the Petri network, which is an important mathematical and graphical tool that allows to analyze several types of systems, where it presents two types of vertices called place and transition. Transitions are represented by bars and places by circles, always being directed by arcs, from place to place, and from place to place. The results were: the system reached the objectives proposed as accessibility, motivation and knowledge acquisition; the special students (visually impaired) were satisfied and when they participated in the courses and the majority of the students approved the courses realized. This research contributed to special education, since it ratified that all human beings are equal, so it is not necessary to treat blind people as different because they can not see. After all, these people yearn for learning, they want to build new things and in this way expand their possibilities to broaden their communication, develop their skills and reach ever higher levels. / A sociedade moderna vive uma constante mudança de paradigmas decorrente do processo de globalização e do avanço das tecnologias nas áreas de comunicação e tecnologia da informação. Essas mudanças ocasionam uma série de dilemas para os modelos existentes na educação, principalmente nos desenvolvidos para quem possui alguma limitação como no caso dos deficientes visuais. O objetivo deste trabalho é propor um modelo de atividades online para cegos usando um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem inclusivo, com base no modelo de Salmon, como também propor uma metodologia em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem. O modelo proposto é importante do ponto de vista da inclusão, já que objetiva trabalhar com o público-alvo os deficientes visuais no contexto de educação a distância. Com a finalidade de validar o modelo, foi aplicado quatro cursos de educação a distância para pessoas especiais (cegos), utilizando um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem acessível denominado Eduquito, o qual foi escolhido em virtude possuir os 3 selos de acessibilidade. Foi feito a formalização do modelo através da rede de Petri, a qual é uma importante ferramenta matemática e gráfica que permite analisar vários tipos de sistemas, onde apresenta dois tipos de vértices denominados lugar e transição. As transições são representadas por barras e os lugares por círculos, sendo direcionados sempre por arcos, de lugar para transição e de transição para lugar. Os resultados foram: o sistema atingiu os objetivos propostos como acessibilidade, motivação e obtenção do conhecimento; os alunos especiais (deficientes visuais) se mostraram satisfeitos ao participarem dos cursos e a maioria dos alunos aprovaram os cursos realizados. A presente pesquisa contribuiu na educação especial, pois ratificou que todos os seres humanos são iguais, sendo assim, não é necessário tratar as pessoas cegas como diferentes porque não conseguem enxergar. Afinal de contas, estas pessoas anseiam por um aprendizado, desejam construir coisas novas e desta forma, expandir as suas possibilidades para ampliar a sua comunicação, desenvolver suas habilidades e atingirem patamares cada vez mais altos.

Esta investigação teve como objetivo principal examinar os registros dos professores do Ensino Fundamental, anos finais, e do Ensino Médio, de uma escola particular, do município de Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, num curso de capacitação para utilizar um Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem (AVA) e relacionálas com possíveis mudanças nas práticas pedagógicas. O trabalho se propôs a realizar uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa baseada nos dados obtidos através dos registros dos professores-alunos nos espaços do AVA. Foram convidados para serem os sujeitos na pesquisa oito professores da Educação Básica, anos finais do Ensino Fundamental e Ensino Médio. O corpus da pesquisa constituiu-se dos registros presentes nos espaços de comunicação do ambiente (fórum, lições, correio eletrônico). O desenvolvimento do curso de capacitação que serviu de cenário para constituição do corpus, foi planejado sob o ponto de vista da aprendizagem a partir da teoria vigotskiana, assim como estimular os participantes a refletirem sobre o fazer pedagógico buscando a prática pedagógica inovadora sob a visão de Moran (2007; 2008). A análise do corpus foi feita à luz de Moraes e Galiazzi (2007) com análise textual discursiva, a qual é constituída por três ciclos denominado pelos autores como: desconstrução e unitarização; processo de categorização e produção de um texto descritivo-interpretativo (metatexto). A partir da análise foi possível identificar possíveis mudanças no fazer pedagógico futuro dos professores-alunos, caracterizadas por estratégias e intervenções pedagógicas que remetem a construção de conhecimentos através da interação e colaboração entre os pares. / This study had as objective to examine the records of the teachers of Primary and final year of High School, a private school in the city of Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, a training course to use a virtual learning environment (VLE) and relate them to possible changes in teaching practices. The study proposes to conduct a qualitative research based on data obtained through the records of studentteachers in the spaces of VLE. Were invited to be the subjects in the study were eight teachers of Basic Education, the final years of Primary and Secondary Education. The corpus consisted of records present in the space communication environment (forum, lessons, electronic mail). The development of the training course that provided the backdrop for the constitution of the corpus, was planned from the viewpoint of learning from Vigotski theory as well as encourage participants to reflect on the pedagogical seeking innovative pedagogical practice from the perspective of Moran (2007, 2008). The corpus analysis was made in light of Moraes and Galiazzi (2007) with discursive textual analysis, which consists of three cycles called by the authors as deconstruction and unitarization; categorization process and production of an interpretive-descriptive text (metatext). From the analysis it was possible to identify possible changes in pedagogical future of student-teachers, characterized by pedagogical strategies and interventions that lead to knowledge construction through interaction and collaboration among peers.