TEACHER TRAINING VIA DISTANCED EDUCATION: Flipped Classroom in Connection with the Pedagogical Demands of EJA
Flipped classroom; Teacher education; Youth and Adult Education; Distance Education; Active Methodologies.
Youth and Adult Education is a teaching modality that was regularized with the LDBEN - Law of Directives and Bases for Education nº 9.394/1996, however, the subjects of Youth and Adult Education appear since the first half of the 20th century. Government programs arise to attend this population, consequently, the training of teachers for this modality is a necessity. With the technological and scientific advances, the classroom demands another format and the Active Methodologies, such as the Inverted Classroom, contribute to a protagonist and active student. Thus, teacher training becomes fundamental and the use of Distance Education in teacher training comes to meet the demands of professionals who need qualification, but do not have time to travel. The general objective of this research is to propose distance teacher training on Inverted Classroom, considering the pedagogical demands of Youth and Adult Education; and based on the hypothesis that the EJA teachers researched in this investigation do not use the Inverted Classroom in their classes and the perceptions of the teachers researched reveal the weaknesses of continuing education programs focused on Active Methodologies, such as the Inverted Classroom; The specific objectives were to characterize the profile and perceptions of teachers about the flipped classroom for Youth and Adult Education; to deliver a distance learning teacher training course for Youth and Adult Education teachers about the flipped classroom; to elaborate didactic material about the flipped classroom, prioritizing learning trails in the scope of teacher training for Youth and Adult Education. The methodology used was applied, with a qualitative approach, characterizing a case study, which used as methodology of analysis the Content Analysis, defined by Moraes (1999). As instruments of data collection, a semi-structured questionnaire was used. The development of the course "Inverted Classroom in EJA: what is it and how to implement it?" was based on the theoretical framework of this research and on the results of the collection instrument that revealed the need for teacher training in this Active Methodology. The course was organized and taught in the Virtual Learning Environment, Moodlle - UFRPE Extension and the didactic material "E-book Sala de Aula Invertida em Conexão com as Demandas Pedagógicas da EJA" was built according to the course program. Both are part of the Educational Product of this research.