Mídia-educação para a sustentabilidade: uma proposta para estudantes do ensino médio

Abstract

This research originated in the obligation to incorporate the school in the engagement of citizen cooperation, empowering its students through the means of new capabilities and competences related to the media and the autonomy to give one’s opinion in critical and reflective manner. Faced with several questions related to how this link can happen, the fundamental question that justifies this research is: Integrating the Study theme with sustainability as hair Demands Digital Technologies Usage in Education?To find the answer, this work had as its general objective: to test the feasibility, in the classroom, of the material from the project “Education-media for sustainability”, developed by professors of the research group “Education, Media and New Citizenships” from the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM), in the program area of “New Talents” by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). Consequently, we traced three specific objectives: to improve the original proposition, proposing the critical analysis of matters about sustainability to students; to increment the original material, creating activity cards, tutorials for using applications and an on-line classroom which can connect students with a common interest in environmental issues; to evaluate the impact of the initiative and its feasibility in the school environment. In order to reach this objectives, we chose to use as a methodological tool the action-research, a very used methodology in the field of education, in which the researcher participates directly in the research. For the structuring of the five workshops, we used as a support, the multimodal material (Siqueira; Berardi; Martins, 2014), which was tested in and elementary school in the municipality of Uberaba-MG. The theoretical basis about education-media was based on Bévort; Belloni, (2009); Buckingham, (2003); Kellner; Share, (2008), Siqueira, (2008). For the sustainability theme, we used the Unesco document – the Earth Charter, (1992) and some authors as Gadotti, (2015), Keeler; Burke, (2010), Milaré, (2007) and Nóbile, (2003). Regarding the relation between sustainability and education, we used documents as The National Curricular Parameters (PCNs) and authors as Freire, (1996); Leff, (2001) and Loureiro (2008).The development of the study was divided into 3 parts: application of workshops in the school; presentation to the school community and the fifth workshop held at UFTM. The results were analyzed noticing the quality of participants’ use of these abilities, newly-learned in the workshops for the creation of their works, in this way we achieved a margin to structure a mapping of skills and capabilities as part of the school to the wider context of digital culture.