Para uma conscientização sobre cultura livre em uma instituição educacional

Abstract

Studies in Science, Technology and Society (STS), when considering the critical analysis and participation of society in situations that intervene in its social context, point to the need for renewal in education. Accordingly, Informatics in Education questions the traditional method of education by presenting issues that go beyond access to artifacts in the school context. This research aims to establish an approach for raising awareness and action-making on free culture, in the context of institutions that promote educational activities with children in elementary school after school hours. The research took place from the participation in a research project, through a partnership between the Postgraduate Program in Technology and Society (PPGTE) of the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), in Curitiba/PR, and Lar dos Meninos de São Luiz (LMSL). That project involves meetings for promoting the sharing of ideas and discussions that address values in STS and the construction of resources, based on critical reflection on the use of technologies. The problem investigated in this research is related to the questioning of ways to discuss and adapt an approach based on the principles of the Free Culture Movement, for the creation of resources with an open license, with the LMSL team. This qualitative research began with a bibliographical review on the articulation between studies in STS, Participatory Design, Informatics in Education and Free Culture. The action research was carried out involving the author’s active participation in the research project through workshops to share ideas and content based on the values of the LMSL and STS studies, in order to establish participatory and focused ways of working promoting open access; information was collected through the production of minutes of the meetings and logbooks, in order to qualitatively analyze the contents of these meetings, considering aspects related to the participation and empowerment of the group in question; finally, it is intended to host such resources in a digital repository developed with LMSL. The results of this research reinforce the importance of creating democratic discursive spaces and its relevance in terms of promoting critical reflection on processes that involve them, concerning the sharing of open educational resources in the institution and the Free Culture practices.