A gestão da produção de conhecimento em fóruns na educação a distância

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to critically understand how the actions of participants (students and professor-researcher) contribute or not to collaborative knowledge production in two forums in distance education. This study s theoretical framework is founded on the Socio-Historical-Cultural Activity Theory (VYGOTSKY, 1934; LEONTIEV, 1977; ENGESTRÖM, 1987-2009), based on Knowledge Production, discussed through the Art of Encounter(SPINOZA, 1677) and Zones of Proximal Development (VYGOTSKY, 1934; NEWMAN; HOLZMAN, 2002; MAGALHÃES, 2009-2011), and also on the Argumentation studies (LIBERALI, 1999-2012). In methodological terms, it is inserted in the critical paradigm and organized as a Critical Collaborative Research (MAGALHÃES, 2011), that is premised on the assumption of not only observing and describing contexts, but interfering, comprehending and transforming them, in a single movement. The corpus of this investigation is composed by interactions seen in two discussion forums between the professorresearcher and first-term students who are enrolled in the Portuguese and Spanish distance graduation courses at a university in Great São Paulo. In the perspective of Applied Linguistics, data were analyzed through participants speech materiality, in the light of categories that consider knowledge production in Argumentation. These categories were divided in enunciative (BAKHTIN, 1929), discursive(PONTECORVO, 2005; LIBERALI, in press; PERELMAN; OLBRECHTS-TYTECA, 1958) and linguistic categories (LIBERALI, in press; KOCH, 2006). This survey results point out to five manners of managementthat enable the movement of participants voices and collaborative production of knowledge. Moreover, they also show that collaborative production not always happens due to lack of discussion wrap up, negotiation and interlacing of voices