TEACHING THROUGH RESEARCH AND DIGITAL INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHERS AT THE FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF MARANHAO

Teaching through research is a proposition based on balanced participation between individual and collective work, in which the teacher analyzes the conditions for creating and developing a pedagogical practice that encourages the continuous participation of the student, understood as a subject, who, when entering the school, brings with it, in addition to their experiences, different types and levels of competence. Teaching through research also refers to the possibility of freeing thought in relation to the regimes of truth about the world, to mobilize disarrangements and bring about a space for the production of more authorial knowledge, considering the use of digital information and communication technologies in the field. teaching. The theme unfolds in the following research problem: how can DICT, combined with teaching through research, help in the planning and implementation of pedagogical practices? As a general objective, it was defined to analyze possibilities and limits of the integration of TDIC to teaching through research, in pedagogical practices, at the Federal Institute of Maranhao. As for the specific objectives, it is intended: 1) to analyze how IFMA professors make use of TDIC in their pedagogical practices; 2) identify, in the pedagogical practices developed by the professors, elements of the relationship with teaching through research and the use of DICT; 3) propose forms of integration between TDIC and teaching through research in teachers' pedagogical practices. The investigation took place with 31 effective professors from the Federal Institutes of Maranhao, Maracana campuses, Historic Center and Monte Castelo. Data were collected through the following instruments: questionnaire and application of a focus group, with data being discussed based on discursive textual analysis, as an investigative posture for the interpretation of phenomena and the identification of meanings produced by teachers on the subject The results showed that research as a dialogue with reality requires active participation for immersion in the horizon of scientific investigation, based on the recognition of the relationship between research and teaching.