The social representation of technology for the teaching work in Amazon

Mourão, Arminda Rachel Botelho; Castro, Tânia Mara de Souza

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SECTION: ARTICLES • Educ. Pesqui. 46 • 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-4634202046216585 copy

The social representation of technology for the teaching work in Amazon^* * English version by Ana Clara Pupin Trematore.

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The article is the result of a research that aimed to analyze the social representation of technology, between trainers and course participants, at the Educational Technology Center in Manaus / State of Amazonas, its implications for teacher training and in the implementation processes of policies for the insertion of technology in teaching work in the Amazon. Some reflections on the relationship between education, technology, training, and teaching work are highlighted, considering its importance in the educational praxis of educators in the region. Nevertheless, it discusses the role of policies for incorporating technology into teaching and its implications for teacher training. In this sense, an empirical study based on the Theory of Social Representation was carried out as a theoretical-methodological axis, its mechanisms of formation and structuring to apprehend the materiality and the meaning of the term technology. For this purpose, in the data collection, 70 teachers participating in the process of implanting the Municipal Technology Centers (MTC’s) in the State of Amazonas were interviewed and the following instruments and techniques were used: systematic observation, registration and semi-structured interview, free association techniques, content analysis, in addition to the epistemological assumptions of Bourdieu’s habitus theory. The results obtained with the development of the research indicate the coexistence of two meanings of the term: technology as a product (material medium) and as a process (management strategies, interactions, and didactic mediations). Among the implications of these representations in teacher training, it stands out: the modification and apprehension of symbolic productions around the object technology, although its senses are disconnected from the specificities of the Amazonian region.

Teaching work; Technology; Social representation

Frequency of evocations
#	Evocated Items	Frequency	Order of Evocations
#	Evocated Items	Frequency	1*	2	3	4	5	6
1	Education	18	10	2	2	3	1	0
2	Information	26	7	4	7	4	1	3
3	Knowledge	18	6	4	6	0	1	1
4	Computer	20	4	3	4	6	2	1
5	Learning	14	3	5	2	2	2	0
6	Innovation	10	2	1	2	3	1	1
7	Compromise	6	2	1	2	0	0	1
8	Formation	5	2	2	1	0	0	0
9	Informatics	5	2	0	1	1	0	1
10	Novelty	5	2	0	0	0	2	1
11	Advance	15	1	5	2	4	1	2
12	Internet	14	1	2	5	3	1	2
13	Work	9	1	2	1	3	2	0
14	Change	6	1	2	1	2	0	0
15	Improvement	6	1	0	1	2	2	0
16	Evolution	5	1	0	1	0	1	2
17	Easiness	8	0	2	1	0	3	2
18	Media	7	0	0	1	1	2	3
19	Entertainment	6	0	0	2	0	0	4
20	Research	6	0	0	2	1	2	1
21	Communication	5	0	1	2	1	1	0
22	Interactivity	5	0	0	1	2	2	0
23	Modernity	50	0	1	0	0	1	3

Categories
Evocations	Subject	Justification
Education	5	As education is the basis of all knowledge... Technology is the fundamental basis of teaching-learning in education.
	19	Because with it (technology) and through education the individual will be able to transform the society where they live.
	34	Because education according to the law is everyone’s right, especially today in the world in which we live. In other words, in the contemporary world, we all need technology in education to advance further.
	35	Because in the modern world, technology expands knowledge.
	36	Education is the most important because it is what makes technology grow... whether in scientific research, etc.
	44	From education on, all other segments are improved or expanded and technology is the degree of investment in education that the country currently has or in its government plan.
	64	Because technology, in fact, is the key to education, and we are responsible for the acquisition of new knowledge and, consequently, contribute to the formation of critical, reflective and active citizens.
	67	Technologies must be part of the day-to-day of schools because education is the basis of society.
	68	Technology should be an important tool to assist in the educational process (education).
Learning	15	Everything we aspire to, we have to learn to be able to innovate, invent... to always go in search of the new (technology)... it is necessary to improve learning and always share.
	65	It is important that in the globalized world people need to know the technology so that there is learning from the world and for the world.
	9	Everything that is new brings learning and is not different with technologies, so learning is more important.
Advance	62	It means innovation of man’s work, making it more practical, facilitating their learning, and accelerating progress, information and communication.
Change	52	Because when there are technologies in society, innovations automatically appear, changes. These changes can sometimes or may not cause us problems.
Innovation	25	Because it is through great technological innovations that we, humans, adapt to priority changes in our lives.
	57	Technology is important because it requires innovation from the individual in terms of changing posture.
	25	Because it is through great technological innovations that we, human beings, adapt and place it as a priority in our lives.

Categories
Evocations	Subject	Justification
Knowledge	3	Because when I started studying [...] I renewed my knowledge more and the study got better.
	4	Knowledge moves the world. And all technology is only valid if it awakens the desire to know... and knowing is inherent to human beings.
	18	Knowledge is the most important thing to acquire (technology) and share with others.
	21	It is through technology that we achieve the necessary knowledge... And what we want to discover.
	28	Because knowledge is a necessary and specific skill for the field of technology.
	47	To enter modernity, it is necessary to have knowledge and through them progress will be made with students, starting from the dynamism of the educator, where there will be unity in the modern world.
	47	To enter modernity it is necessary to have knowledge and only through them will there be progress with students, starting from the dynamism of the educator where there will be unity in the modern world.
Information	24	Information is the most important word in the field of technology because through Information and Communication Technologies we can acquire knowledge... because it informs and forms knowledge.
	31	Because technology helps us to have information and be informed in this globalized world.
	38	It is through information that we grow as a social being, as a person and as a professional.
	42	Through information we can acquire knowledge to disseminate it.
	43	Because it leads us to provoke knowledge in our students.
	45	I chose the information because it was inserted with the technology.
	43	Because it leads us to provoke knowledge in our students.
	54	It is inserted along with technology.
	54	When it comes to the internet, it brings information about any situation we seek.

Categories
Evocations	Subject	Justification
Computer	26	Because technology starts with the computer... it (computer) leads the human being to be curious.
	27	All technology started with the computer.
	32	The computer is the main vehicle for working with current technologies.
	39	Without a computer, there would be no way forward in the globalized world.
	48	Because it is a technological instrument that is essential in my daily life because with it I carry out my professional and personal work. As I take the distance physical education course, it (computer) is practically the most important instrument.
Internet	12	The internet is a technology that takes us to other spaces and to use other applications.
	22	The internet is a technology that allows worldwide communication.
	13	Because with the advances of the globalized world it is important to have a technology like the internet as a tool for the information and learning of our professional activities.
	33	This technology is very important for us to do our job... and to move forward and improve our knowledge.

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[1] Arminda Raquel Botelho Mourão is a full professor at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) and works in the Graduate Program in Education at UFAM, where she supervises master’s and doctor’s degree program. She is the leader of the Study and Research Group on Gender, Work and Education at UFAM.

Tânia Mara de Souza Castro is a doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) and a member of the Group for Studies and Research on Gender, Labor and Education at UFAM.

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The social representation of technology for the teaching work in Amazon* * English version by Ana Clara Pupin Trematore.

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The social representation of technology for the teaching work in Amazon^* * English version by Ana Clara Pupin Trematore.