Interlocutions of researches in technologies in education

Abstract

This study is aimed to discuss about the senses and meanings of technologies in education, converging to new forms of pedagogical actions and reflection on the changes caused in the understanding of the teaching and learning processes with the technological interfaces. With such purpose, we carried out a mapping, in the Brazilian Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (BDTD), of thesis produced in the Post Graduation Programs in Education from Brazilian public universities in the 2012-2014 triennium. In order to forge these schemes, we considered the acknowledged bibliographical production on technologies in education articulated to the debates of the critical scholars, in a perspective of the reconstructive hermeneutics. In the face of a trend to end borders and the exchange of relationships with the world, which strategies do the theses in the educational field justify to overcome the appeals for the domain of technical skills and foster intercultural and educational dialogues in the era of technological innovations? The ambiguities found in the investigation are the result of several approaches concerning the technologies and their languages, practices and policies, bringing perplexities and uncertainties in the world between virtuality and pedagogical reality, and taking the risk of falling again into sterility of the debate. The mapping carried out in the present work assumes some relevance, especially, to carry out the challenge of understanding the senses and meanings of the technologies in education to go beyond the descriptive view of success of some practices.