La naturaleza de las acciones educativas desarrolladas por los bibliotecarios de la Red Federal de Educación Profesional, Científica y Tecnológica (RFEPCT)
Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This study investigates how librarians from the libraries of the Federal Network of Professional Scientific and Technological Education (RFEPCT) and graduates of the professional master’s degree program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT) understand the nature of the educational actions they develop. This is an ontological study that investigates the nature of the entity itself aiming to understand it as a being and the links between its constituent elements. Specifically, we aim to characterize the subjects taking part in the research and their working context; to learn if/how initial training (librarianship) and continuing training(s) contributed to developing the educational actions in question; to identify the typologies and to specify the definitions given to educational actions; to characterize, through the perezhivaniya reported, the constitutive elements of the nature of the educational actions highlighted by the participating subjects; and to identify if/how they understand the presence/relevance of technology in the development of educational actions. We conducted systematic mapping (MS) to identify the content related to the subject and found that most studies on the subject refer to the area of librarianship, with little interlocution with education. This justification for this research is added to others of a social and personal nature. Data collection and analysis are based on the theoretical-methodological framework of Lev Semionovich Vygotsky’s (1896-1934) cultural-historical theory, the category of perezhivanie, as a unit of analysis and analytical reference for part of the data analyzed, mediation as an explanatory principle, and the dialectical approach. The research design is structured based on a quantitative↔qualitative approach by applying a mixed online questionnaire (31 participants, distributed across the five Brazilian regions) and a semi-structured reflective interview (six participants). The results obtained through the questionnaire showed that the group is mostly made up of women who have been working in the RFEPCT for around a decade. We also point out that continuing training, specifically the ProfEPT, is seen as more relevant than initial training in librarianship in terms of contributing to the development of educational actions. In addition, we identified 33 different types of educational actions developed by these subjects, including the development of book clubs/reading clubs, training, workshops, classes, and courses. There is also a marked multidimensionality of definitions attributed to educational actions, which were grouped into six types with clear interrelationships between them. Concerning the interviews, based on the analytical framework developed to analyze the perezhivaniya, five essential elements of these educational actions were identified, namely: work from the perspective of totality, freedom, planning, information mediation, and cultural mediation (intersecting formative character). We also indicate that technological resources are present in the educational activities mentioned and are correlated to the shortage of library workers. Thus, the nature of the educational actions is shown from a systemic, dynamic relationship linked to the principles of professional and technological education (EPT), along with a teleological dimension that expresses a prior and conscious purpose of these professionals, in the face of the invisibility and lack of institutional recognition of their work. We concluded that the educational activities carried out by librarians at the RFEPCT reflect a movement aimed at overcoming the historical dichotomy between the areas of librarianship and education, contributing to the comprehensive training of individuals, following the principles of professional and technological education (EPT), through activities carried out in non-formal educational contexts.
Author: Souza, Ágata Nelza Gomes de
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7120843281