Processos socioculturais da implementação de programas de informatização em escolas públicas: o caso do PROINFO-MEC em Manaus, 1998-2004

Abstract

The relationship between nature and technology is effective from the participation of the man, who sees part of that relationship. In the Amazon, this process is effective with the conquest of geographical space, as part of the process of land occupation, the use of technology was linked to the interventionist policies of the state. Public policies in Brazil and the Amazon in particular are marked by discontinuities, which frustrate and interrupt processes and collective constructions. This study examines how information technologies are present in the Amazonian landscape and public policies for development and national integration. The regional context is seen through a prism that weaves together the interests of local, global and globalized. These interests are flow in school and in the process of computerization. Having the State School Waldir Garcia as a case study, seeks to show how teachers, students and other individuals involved perceive and at the same time, design changes and the ways that the National Programme for IT in Education - MEC-ProInfo assumes when articulated with global interests, but situated on local issues and characteristics of a complex and contradictory space as the school. Realize possibilities for use of information technology in school, where space is contradictory and complex plots new directions, directions and points to the teaching activities and the strengthening of school.