Abstract
This article presents the concepts of information and knowledge adopted by undergraduates, professors and assistant teachers from the distance education in the undergraduate courses in Biological Sciences and Mathematics at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). The social representations were systematized in the study that investigated the formation of informational culture in the distance education modality. It was used as a theoretical framework the Social Representation Theory and the technique of CSD (Discourse of the Collective Subject) developed by Lefèvre and Lefèvre. According to the social representations of research subjects, information is the basis for the construction of knowledge and is understood as a human phenomenon that relates to the production of meaning. The systematic knowledge is the information that can be socially communicated.
Highlights
This article presents the concepts of information and knowledge adopted by undergraduates, professors and assistant teachers from the distance education in the undergraduate courses in Biological Sciences and Mathematics at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
The social representations were systematized in the study that investigated the formation of informational culture in the distance education modality
It was used as a theoretical framework the Social Representation Theory and the technique of CSD (Discourse of the Collective Subject) developed by Lefèvre and Lefèvre
Summary
As representações sociais são elementos simbólicos que os homens expressam mediante o uso de palavras e de gestos para explicitar o que pensam, demonstrar os seus sentimentos sobre uma determinada situação e formular opiniões acerca de determinado fato ou objeto. (PINHEIRO, 2008). As representações sociais são elementos simbólicos que os homens expressam mediante o uso de palavras e de gestos para explicitar o que pensam, demonstrar os seus sentimentos sobre uma determinada situação e formular opiniões acerca de determinado fato ou objeto. As representações sociais investigam ―como se formam e como funcionam os sistemas de referência que utilizamos para classificar pessoas e grupos e para interpretar os acontecimentos da realidade cotidiana.‖ As representações sobre informação e conhecimento expressam as opiniões, os valores, as crenças que as pessoas adotam na composição desses conceitos. Essas representações são construídas a partir dos elementos culturais, sociais e históricos que permeiam o espaço social desses sujeitos
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