TEACHING MATERIALS OF THE PERNAMBUCO EAD PROGRAM: Implications of Language Practices in the Evasion of Technical Courses in the Distance Mode
Dialogicity; Courseware; Distance Vocational Education.
Distance vocational education has been gaining ground in Brazil with state ownership, Brazilian states have been creating public policies for the provision of distance courses and offering an increasing number of vacancies each year. In Pernambuco, the EaD Pernambuco Program stands out as a public policy that has benefited thousands of citizens every year. Several authors have pointed out the relationship between dialogicity and the motivation of distance education students. Because in the distance education modality, the student does not have the teacher at all times to ask questions, or even the interaction with other students to motivate him, and that is why the language of the didactic material has great relevance in the process of creating ties with the same, with the sensation of proximity and, consequently, with the motivation. Not disregarding the importance of dialogicity of the other elements of distance education, such as virtual learning environments, forum and chat activities, informal interactions via social networks and other possibilities of interaction. The teaching materials need to dialogue with the students' previous knowledge, stimulating criticality, the construction of knowledge in an autonomous way, hypertextuality and multimodality. Pointing out that the didactic material that dialogues with the student has the potential to keep him motivated in his studies. With this in mind, it was decided to analyze data on dropout from the EaD Pernambuco Program, having observed that the Interior Design and Administration courses have, respectively, higher and lower dropout rates. From this, aiming to contribute to the improvement of the quality of the teaching and learning process of the distance technical courses of the EaD Pernambuco program, based on data released in 2019 about dropout in these courses, and seeking to collaborate with the quality of the program, this work aims to analyze the language of the teaching materials of the courses with higher and lower dropout rates and the perception of students and graduates about the dialogism of these teaching materials, analyzing the relationship between the dialogicity of the material and the dropout, seeking the elaboration of a product for this research, which will be the offer of a course for teachers who prepare teaching materials for the program.