Oficina de TV, uma prática educomunicativa: estudo de caso de uma criança abrigada / Workshop, an educommunication proposal: the case study of an institutionalized child

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2008

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On the one hand, there is educommunication, a new field in the interface between education and communication, defined as a field of social intervention and professional action. It is subdivided into specific action areas, such as education for the media, which is composed of reflections on the relationship among producers, productive process, reception of messages, and programs for educating autonomous and critical recipients for the media. On the other hand, there are children living in institutions, frequently seen as places of exclusion where children and adolescents are taken to wait for an uncertain better future. These institutionalized childrens previous and current living conditions can affect their development. In this study, characterized as research in action, we have sought to understand the possible gains that participation in a TV workshop could bring to institutionalized children. By means of the case study of an 11-year-old girl who lives in an institution in a medium-sized town in the inland region of the State of São Paulo, we tried to identify changes in her development condition, expressed in her daily life, which could be considered as derived from participation in the project. We adopted the "Network of Meanings" as a theoretical-methodological framework. The workshop was conducted in 30 meetings, totaling 60 hours, and followed some procedures, such as learning-by-doing and presentation of theoretical concepts to participants in direct contact with equipment and the language of television. The educator and the institution technician in charge of the case, teachers, and the girls mother were heard before and after the workshop, aiming at collecting information on the girls history and describing her in specific moments. The initial description of this child was very similar to that existing in the literature on institutionalized children, especially concerning negative self-image and bad school performance. After the workshop, there were positive changes in the description these people made of the girl. We understand such changes as possibly motivated by a combination of the way how interactions were dialogically established between the girl and the people with whom she interacted during the project (including the educommunicator), the roles attributed to her, and how she managed them. We also believe that the project development allowed us to see the use of the video camera in education for the media as an education/human development device to improve childrens experience of life by breaking their mythical relationship with the object TV and helping them to perceive their own resources, especially in the case of children who do not yet master reading and writing.

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educommunication crianças abrigadas tv workshop educomunicação oficina de tv child

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