Usos e apropriações de multimídias na educação para a biodiversidade em escolas de Belém/PA

• Main Authors: Lúcia das Graças Santana da Silva, Vanja Joice Bispo Santos, Mayara Santos Maciel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro Universitário Teresa D'Ávila - UNIFATEA 2016-07-01
• Series: ECCOM
• Subjects: Biodiversity; educomunication; multimedia; education; communication
• Online Access: http://publicacoes.fatea.br/index.php/eccom/article/viewFile/1610/1218

This research, carried out under the Capacity Institutional program through the Paraense Emilio Goeldi Museum/MCTI, identified perceptions about the concept of biodiversity in two school communities of elementary and high school in the city of Belém do Pará - Brazil, linked to municipal systems and state education, namely: Reference Center for Environmental Education Foundation Teacher Eidorfe Moreira and State Elementary School and Middle Vilhena Alves. Also identified as the Information and Communication Technologies and multimedia, act as mediators of the processes of teaching and learning about biodiversity in these communities. The methodology used is action research with participant observation (PERUZZO, 2003) and in-depth interviews of semi-open type with semi-structured questions (Duarte, 2009). It was concluded that the concept of biodiversity should be better worked in the school environment, in a structured way and with the pedagogical assistance of ICTs, whose educational use should be favored with the best investments in public education, especially in training and teachers' awareness of the pedagogical use ICT and multimedia.