A Tecnologia da Informação na educação no campo: considerações nas escolas dos Assentamentos Casa Verde e 17 de abril

Abstract

This research was developed to analyze the impact of information technologies and networks in the rural schools, taking as a case study the schools in the settlements Casa Verde and 17 de Abril, located sixty kilometers from the city of Nova Andradina-MS, inaugurated, respectively, in the years of 1995 and 2006. Although they are inserted in distinct temporalities and spatiality, t he rural school lives the contradiction of being object of public policies similar to those of the urban school. From this contradiction we can observe the limits and possibilities of the relationships that are formed by means of diverse networks, as the transport, conviviality between people of the local community and school, and of the familiar production; networks linked around a common goal: education. From this perspect ive, we seek to understand the Information Technology present in the classroom, the access to this technology, investigating the impact it causes in the times and in the pedagogical spaces of the school in the rural schools from this case study. The methodology used is based on observation of the daily life of the rural schools, their experiences, aspirations and achievements, it improved by the application of interviews, ethnographic journals and semistructured qualitative questionnaires.