A convergência das mídias como estratégia instigadora do pensamento reflexivo na educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

This research aimed to verify if the use of narratives in convergent digital media can instigate the reflective thinking of students of the Youth and Adult Education (EJA) modality. Having started from a literature review research and based mainly on the ideas of FREIRE (1983, 1988, 1989, 2018, 2019), LIPMAN (1987, 1990, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2017) and SANTAELLA (2003, 2007, 2013), the work also had an empirical research with 17 EJA volunteer students at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Goiás (IFG) - Campus Aparecida de Goiânia, in the period of two months, in the year 2018, when were held investigative dialogues and actions of construction and feeding of weblogs with the research subjects. The literature review revealed that the use of digital information and communication resources with young people and adults who are in school outside their regular age is unusual, and that the use of Research Community bases with young and adult students is also little recurring. Therefore, entering the spaces of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and of a methodology for the development of reflective thinking, the volunteer students of the research demonstrated – in oral, textual and digital narratives – a bigger opening to express themselves, which was identified as important in the autonomy process of the subjects. Reflective thinking skills, such as making inference and judgment, asking questions, explaining reasons, presenting discretions, among others, were exercised in dialogues and proved to be important for raising the quality of shared messages in the virtual medium. The research concluded for the viability of the use of convergent digital media to instigate the reflexive thinking of students of EJA and, considering the social reality of these subjects, result of a historical process marked by inequality and oppression, highlights the relevance of actions for development. of reflective thinking to be realized in the sense of social transformation, by favoring these subjects to recognize themselves and the world in which they live. This work is a dissertation of the Professional Master in Professional and Technological Education - PROFEPT / IFG pole - Anápolis Campus and gave rise to the educational product Blog with Didactic Sequence, directed to Youth and Adult Education, but adaptable to other levels and modalities of formal and not formal education. The product is reported in this research and available to educators who want to conduct similar experience.