Desenvolvimento de competências informacionais em moradores de uma comunidade popular urbana

Abstract

This is the presentation of the lineation of the research in progress in the doctoral postgraduate program in Information Science at the Federal University of Bahia developing in Santa Clara Community (SCC) in the city of João Pessoa, as prosecution of the Masters research aiming to create and deploy a mediation model of information to include the residents of this town in contemporary society. A process that should occur through the promotion of informational competence for these residents encouraging them to understand the self-change and desire to overcome the barriers of an excluding system. For this will be used for information and communication technologies as a support for promotion of courses, workshops and trainings. In this context, the information professional has a primordial performance as a mediator facilitating access to and use of information, and helping the subjects of the research to appropriate the information they need to leave the state in which they are, putting the concepts around social responsibility of the Information Science into practice. From the experience gained in the research area and from continuous participant observation, a mediation model is already being traced taking other models as a theory, e.g. Belmonte (2007), he created and implemented a model of inclusive mediation for teacher as mediator in learning.