Inovação na educação para uma cidade inteligente: uma análise de projetos educacionais inovadores na rede municipal da cidade de Curitiba-PR

Abstract

This research starts questioning if educational indicators of Curitiba’s municipal education are influenced by innovative actions developed in the institutions, and in which measure this innovation can represent a step in the process of urban intelligence. The objective of this study is to identify and to characterize the relationship between innovation projects in the municipal education institutions of Curitiba and educational indicators, under the perspective of the concept of intelligent city. In methodological terms, the research is structured in three phases: a) an approximation with the phenomenon from a bibliographical-documentary survey, based on the correlation between the concepts of innovation for education and smart city; b) an investigation about the existence of relations between the implementation and development of projects and results obtained in the educational indicators raised by INEP; and c) the establishment of inferences from the phenomenological construction, considering the concept of smart city. The research concluded that there are no direct or visible short term relationships between the fact the development of several innovative projects in the schools and their respective indicators. The conclusion is that impacts can only be perceived quantitatively in long term, since in the short term the positive interferences of the projects may be confined to a reduced number of students more actively involved in the initiatives. Finally, it was argued that we need a combination of different methodologies and approaches on educational researches to reflect more truthfully the reality. However, quantitative observations are important in the exploratory sense to demystify concepts and to indicate research possibilities.