A look at the Reference Centers in Educational Technology of the Federal District from the perspective of continuing teacher training for the use of ICTs: the view of teacher trainers
Educational Technology Reference Center; Federal District; Continuing teacher education; Teacher trainer; Digital Information, Communication and Expression Technologies
The general objective of this research was to analyze the limits and possibilities of the ETRCs of the Federal District, in the development of continuing teacher training actions for the use of ICTs, from the point of view of the training teachers. Specifically, it was intended to identify the conditions under which work takes place in the Centers; to find out how trainers analyze their professional practice; to verify the main difficulties in the execution of its actions and analyze the bias of the training, through the courses offered before and after the period of the Covid-19 pandemic. For that, we opted for research with a qualitative approach, developed through the multiple case study. For the construction of empirical information, observation techniques of ETRCs, document analysis and online questionnaire were used. The interpretation was made by content analysis. The results suggest that the ETRCs are important spaces for continuing teacher education and can contribute to making the ICTs effective in the educational environment, through their training actions (courses, workshops, project support, among others). All for the sake of meaningful student learning in the digital and technological era currently experienced. The possibilities are numerous, but some limits interfere in the development of actions. For example, ETRCs lack management at the central level, their own resources for the acquisition or maintenance of materials and investments in physical spaces, the publication of a new ordinance and consistent public policies for the sector.