Exclusão Digital em Educação no Brasil: um estudo bibliográfico

Abstract

The digital exclusion is the object of this study. The main objective was to conduct a literature review on this topic from scientific publications, available online, in national databases date from 2003 to 2015. The theoretical premise that guided the research seeks to understand how is, through the mediation of digital technologies, occurred the transformation of an information society into a knowledge society in contemporary Brazil. The data corpus part of a total of 2,104 documents, and analyzes a selection of 102 texts using three instruments: the bibliographic management software EndNote, the ATLAS.ti software of content analysis and the conceptual maps. The questions guiding this study were: a) how is the debate about digital exclusion in the studies published between 2003 and 2015, the field of education and digital technologies in Brazil? b) From the perspective of authors of the selected texts, how is digital divide related to issues of social, educational and cultural exclusion in Brazil? and; c) In what extent the nature of the inequality, exclusion and infrastructure of the Brazilian educational system is a response to the digital divide in the country? To discuss the results of the bibliographic analyses it was articulated as key terms - Education and Digital Technologies to understand the arguments used by the authors their concepts and developments on this issues and its connection with studies on exclusion. As a result, Infrastructure and Digital Exclusion were the categories raised from the analyses, which permit to demonstrate the challenge that is posed to the country in the context of Education and schools, which is to overcome the socio-educational inequalities and the digital divide. The study concludes that human technologies and digital technology capital are inextricable conditions for digital inclusion for all people, to become, not only a right, but also the country reality