O papel das TIC em contextos rurais: o caso da escola de Cravaçu

Abstract

Information and communication technology (ICT) can be considered as a set of technological resources that allows easy access to information as well as its spread. These technologies are in the daily lives of the contemporary society in many different ways. The history of the education which is offered to the rural population is marked by disruption, unimportance, badly structured schools and out of context subjects in relation to the student’s lives. Taking this discussion into account, it is made a reflection about the use of the ICT in rural education in the county of Rio Tinto-PB, considering the teachers’ training as well as their pedagogical practice. The outcome reached in this work is the result of a lengthy process of bibliographical research, direct monitoring of the rural school, visits, application of questionnaires and their analysis. In this sense, it was verified that, throughout the research about the rural education, the teachers have difficulties in use the ICT, the lesson plans should be developed in relation to the students’ lives, there should be varied ways of construction of the physical and symbolic spaces, of the individuals, of the environment, as the present education of the rural schools is far away from the desired education. Besides that, there is a deficit in the structural organization of the rural schools as well as in their continuing education of teachers. Given the study, it is revealed that the implementation of the use of the ICT in rural education in Rio Tinto-PB is still on progress.