Technological advances in public education policies in Brazil: An integrative review

Abstract

Introduction: Education policies are ensured by the federal constitution and other laws, such as the law of guidelines and bases of national education (law No. 9,394/96), and aim to find solutions to the great social challenges in education, minimizing the different levels of schooling, as well as social differences within the classroom. Objective: To describe technological advances in public education policies in Brazil. Method: This is an integrative review elaborated from the following steps: definition of the hypothesis and objectives of the review; establishment of inclusion and exclusion criteria of articles (sample selection); definition of the information to be extracted from the selected articles; evaluation of the results; discussion and presentation of the results and conclusion. Results: The research revealed that public education policies have been expanding and improving according to developments in the economic, social, political, cultural, and technological aspects of society. Discussion: The studies make it clear that ICT has contributed in various sectors, having more positive than negative results, but there are still many changes to be made so that technologies contribute even more to this digital society. Final considerations: Public education policies are increasingly integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into their government policies. However, there has been an advance in the implementation of technology in the area of education, where it is believed that all these transformations and technological resources will be part of the educational curriculum since we are in the twenty-first century.