Integração do laboratório de informática ao currículo: práticas numa escola municipal de Fortaleza

Abstract

The present study investigated the integration of the computer lab in the curriculum of the municipal school units of Fortaleza, Ceará, analyzing its forms of use and its relationship to educational planning implemented. The methodology, with emphasis on qualitative and ethnographic, was performed in mixed form, from questionnaires and field research. We use the techniques of participant observation and semi-structured interview with a professor at the LEI and a classroom teacher. The subjects were selected based on predefined criteria such as execution of activities developed in the classroom, articulated with the computer lab, participation in school planning and, provision and interest to participate of study. The survey results indicated that the lab have been used systematically in school, from different modalities. However, there are still many difficulties which prevent practices most interactional and integrated into the school curriculum. The practices, often, are impregnated of an instructional approach, limiting the pedagogical use, result of a functional planning, reflecting an traditional curriculum arrested to time and space, showing the need to deepen the interdisciplinary and transversal character of use of the computer lab in school, from epistemological discussions.