Perspectivas de articulação dos conhecimentos pedagógicos, tecnológicos e do conteúdo na formação inicial de professores de matemática

Abstract

This study addresses the initial training of teachers for the use of digital technologies, conceiving it as a process that articulates the appropriation of knowledge about the use of technologies, pedagogical knowledge and knowledge of the specific content. In order to do so, it focuses on the context of the graduation course in Mathematics of the Federal University of the Fronteira Sul, guided by the objective of evidencing and understanding the perspectives of use of digital technologies in the context of the formative activities promoted in this course, contemplating the specific, pedagogical and technological dimensions of the knowledge of the future teacher. Therefore, this study considers the training activities as being the set of activities developed in the context of the Curriculum Components and extracurricular activities of the graduation in Mathematics. The study consists of a qualitative and interpretative analysis, based on the content analysis of the curricular components of the course, and data obtained through questionnaires and interviews directed to teachers and students. The analysis was based mainly on the theoretical assumptions about the digital technologies addressed by Pierre Lévy and on the dimensions of teacher training explained by Shulman, as well as the re-reading of Mishra and Koehler, in the theoretical construct of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK). As a result of the research, four central perspectives of the use of the digital resources of the training activities of the Course were evidenced: perspective turned to the teaching practice in the basic education; perspective aimed at the development of Mathematics knowledge; a perspective aiming at developing knowledge about technologies and their pedagogical possibilities; and finally, a perspective associated with transversal aspects of teacher education and profession. Through the analysis of these categories, new elements related to the use of digital resources in initial teacher training are highlighted, especially when evidencing the potential of representation, visualization and understanding of concepts and mathematical properties with the use of digital resources, the possibilities of production and dissemination of content, making teachers and students active subjects of the process of knowledge construction, and the perception of constant interaction between technological, pedagogical and content knowledge in teaching practice.