TRAINING OF NATURAL SCIENCE TEACHERS: REFLECTIONS ON DIGITAL CULTURE

REFLEXÕES DIANTE DA CULTURA DIGITAL

Abstract

Technological advances influence our daily lives in several aspects, so thinking about teacher training that includes the articulation of digital technologies with educational processes corresponds to a social and also educational demand. This article, which originates from Doctoral research, linked to the XXXX and XXXXXX Postgraduate programs, aimed to establish reflections on the training of teachers in Natural Sciences courses (CNT) at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) in the face of the context of digital culture. To this end, it presents a qualitative approach, with a descriptive and exploratory bias, using as a data source the Pedagogical Political Projects of the CNT Courses (PPC), treated from the perspective of Bardin's Content Analysis (2016). The results revealed that the UFS CNT PPCs present pedagogical guidelines and disciplines that articulate the training process with digital culture and digital technologies; that contemplate the conception of education as promoting the formation of critical and participatory citizens in society; and that articulate pedagogical knowledge with specific knowledge of the area. We consider that university professors of CNT courses are responsible for a complex set of responsibilities, new content and ways of thinking about education, so that they can assist in the process of training CNT degree students in the context of digital culture.