A natureza do conhecimento tecnológico na Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná: câmpus Curitiba – Paraná – Brasil

Abstract

This thesis deals with the technological knowledge nature and the specialties through continuing education for teachers of UTFPR in the academic context of technological and professional learning. The research, qualitative and quantitative, comprehensive, descriptive and exploratory, is divided into three stages: 1) data collection - requests documents for keeping away of work for training teachers of the Federal University of Technology - Paraná, in Curitiba Campus - UTFPR, 2) to choice authors and concepts that support the theoretical and practical discussion, two fundamental concepts guided the analysis: technological knowledge and continuing education for teachers, 3) data analysis in the light of theory and methods. The text is divided into five parts. The first deals with the background that established the national policy for higher education in the context of technological globalization. In the second part, it was developed a theoretical framework that underpins the discussion of the data collected and the trajectories of the continuing training of UTFPR‟s teachers. The third part consists of methodological procedures. It was defined three units of analysis: technological areas, technological areas specialties and teacher training trajectories. The temporal boundary was demarcated by two moments: the creation of UTFPR in 2005 and the start of the data collection in 2010. In the fourth part it was retaken the units of analysis to examine the case study. The research conclusions showed that through the trajectories continuing training of teachers were possible to know the specialties avalilable in didactic and pedagogical practices of technological and professional learning. These specialities include the technical rationalism dimensions and are linked to the linearity between theoretical and practices disciplines and to the teachers‟ choices of training courses.