Avaliação de políticas públicas de inclusão digital nas escolas: um estudo de caso do UCA Total em Tiradentes

Abstract

This research aims at evaluating Public Politics of Digital Inclusion, set up in Tiradentes by using the Project Uca-total. It is said that digital inclusion is such an important tool to integrate lower classes, and it also helps them in the social inclusion. Therefore, the broadcasting of Information and Communication Technologies-TICs-minimizes the digital gap that empowers social inequality which contributes with deep changes in the way people think and act. Moreover, it is crucial to facilitate TCIs access to guide people to acquire knowledge, abilities and skills, essencial characteristics in the information society. Taking this context into consideration, the Government have been creating Public Politics, in order to promote digital inclusion. Among others, some actions get educational proportions, as the project “A computer for each student”, which holds the objective of the sorting out educational portable computers to students from public schools in the country. Considering the programme, Tiradentes, in 2010, was gifted with the project UCA Total, through that, all students from every public school in town, would receive the educational laptop. By this attitude, in the perspective of the analysies of life cicle of the Project Uca-Total in Tiradentes, was made necessary the evaluation of results and the impact of the project in the town. Thus, an exploiratory research was accomplished in town, followed by a case study, with quantitative and qualitative approaches, to collect data by questionnaries, interviews with teachers, students and project administrators. Furthermore, it was also possible to observe the incorporation of new technologies at school, going beyond the acquisition of physical infrastructure and of specialized human resourses. When management, proposal, planning,and above all, methodologies that favor the use of technology with facilitator resourses of learning were demanding. Besides social, economical and cultural development strategies of the society.