O uso dos documentários como ferramenta no processo de ensino-aprendizagem

Abstract

It aims to present the point of view of professors and students about the use of documentaries as a tool in the teaching-learning process in the subjects of Culture and Media; Information and Society; and Information and Communication Theory of the Librarianship course of the Federal University of Ceará. It traces the historical line of cinema from its inception to the present day, correlating it with World History and with social and cultural aspects of society in general. It presents the emergence of cinematographic genres from European cultural expressions and vanguards, relating them to the development of cinematographic language. It relates the cinema, more specifically the documentary genre, to education, presenting how various countries adapted the films to the educational context. Conceptualizes documentary genre and presents the new types of documentaries that are being developed from the new technologies and the internet. As for the methodology, it is a qualitative descriptive research that, through the analysis of applied content in data, collected through the application of questionnaires to the students and the accomplishment of an interview with professors of the mentioned disciplines, found that both professors and students believe that documentaries are a good tool in the teaching-learning process and that, although it needs some adjustments, bring a good result when combined with texts and debates in the classroom.