The teaching of robotics in computer recycling centers: Discursive constructions of technological disobedience

Abstract

This article presents the main theoretical and methodological intakes for the execution of a research that has the overall objective of investigating the use and legitimization of digital technologies in the construction and execution of political-pedagogical robotics projects in eleven computer recycling centers supported by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications. The work intends to enlighten the adopted theoretical perspectives, the construction of research strategies, and its practical tools. The results of the descriptive-analytical studies, with a qualitative approach, puts in evidence discursive counter-hegemonic constructions regarding patterns of production, goods consumption, and the appropriation of knowledge that results or reproduces the digital/social exclusion. Thus meaning that the investigated speeches formulates and demarcates a posture of technological disobedience on which to build its formation identity of teachers and learners, as well as models and educational robotics standards in those centers. Hopefully the thoughts presented in this article contribute on the deep immersion of the discussions regarding the qualitative methodologies in educational research, about the emergence of new areas and educational models, also putting in evidence the importance of a historical-sociological perspective, and non-technologist/deterministic approaches for the digital technology studies, its representations and on how to use them in an educational environment, and the teaching-learning process.