Instruments to validate didactic learning environments (DLE) intended to educate language and communication teachers on diversity: A tool for language didactics

Abstract

Aiming to contribute to the development of didactics in some fields of the education disciplines, this paper proposes some instruments to validate Didactic Learning Environments (DLE) in the context of educating language and communication teachers (LC) on and for the diversity. Under the framework of an architecture to validate the DLEs, some instruments are proposed herein to validate didactic designs built after the Design Theory and the mutual intelligibility that rules practice communities where LC teachers are educated. The result is a qualitative and quantitative toolkit whose function is to assess the DLEs in two instances: as a planned design and as a design in action. The elements assessed in the first instance include: didactical design, technological mediations, and educational accessibility. In the execution instance, the assessment includes: development of the didactical design, the social relations produced due to the accessibility, and the diversity acceptance in the settings intended for teacher formation. In general, this work provides some refiections as coadjutors in shaping the design for the DLE validation instruments as a field integrated to the emerging education research processes in didactics. In particular, this proposal of instruments allows the interested parties to map the relation network created with the efforts to understand the learning processes of the narrative, at the classroom of the future LC teachers.