Constituição de comunidade: [im] possibilidades no percurso formativo em educação a distância - EaD

Abstract

The concept of community is broad and has different historical, social and cultural dimensions that resonate in the educational setting and contemporary trajectories of teacher training, especially in the mode of distance education (EAD). In this mode, develop didactic, pedagogical and interpersonal relations potentially conducive to formation of collaborative networks of training and professional development that, in turn, can lead to the formation of a community. Understanding the formative journey as the trajectory of training in groups that are significant to the teacher, while person/professional, the general objective of this research is: investigate the initial teacher training course of the first graduates of the course Spanish and Literature/EAD/UAB/UFSM to understand how is (or not) a community in this context. For both, the approach adopted is qualitative research, in which it sought, from an exploratory step, establish the initial contact with 78 subjects, in order to meet the students profile and describe their conceptions about EAD and its didactic-pedagogical relations within the framework of the course. From this exploratory phase, were identified that enabled the construction of inferences threads-Guide to narrative interviews with six subjects. Based on textual recurrences presented in the narrative constructed records emerged showing significant moments subtopics of the formative journey that denote the characteristics of a network of training and professional