A questão da hierarquia docente na educação a distância: PRONATEC-UTFPR

Abstract

This work deals with the roles and functions of the classroom teacher tutor in distance education courses. The starting point of the discussions was the hypothesis that there are functional differences in teacher and remunerative hierarchy that legitimizes the structure organization which is faced with the teaching career. The main objective was to understand the specifics conflicts and contradictions that are established in the didactical and pedagogical relationships between teachers and students of distance education, highlighting the limits and possibilities of the tutor performance. First three pedagogical models that permeated the classroom education whose principles and problems reproduced in distance education. Then divergent situations arising from key roles of classroom teacher tutor were exposed, who represented distance education teaching hierarchy. This theoretical foundation grounded the case study in which the researcher was teaching subject and object. This happened at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná - UTFPR in the Education Technology Coordination - COTED-CT, campus Curitiba, in post-secondary course in “Technical in Multimedia Teaching”. The actions of the teacher present tutor were raised in order to add different analytical perspectives. The completion of the work, in the aspect of mentoring is that the pedagogical models of classroom education adopted in distance education, reproduced the teacher role importance, as teacher knowledge holder and responsible for the contents. As in distance education roles of this agent are unfolded, the functions of themes fixation and learning practices are redistributed for tutoring. It results in the functional and remunerative differences and consecutive accumulation of tasks that disqualifies a teacher tutor career. It is worth saying that the educational institutions are not exempted from the responsibilities of organizing the insertion and professional socialization process in distance education frame.