Educação não formal e ciberespaço: a experiência do pré-universitário social Oficina do Saber

Abstract

The research project analyzes the digital educational experience of the Pre-University Social Oficina do Saber in terms of offering preparatory courses for entrance exams (ENEM and UERJ) from the pandemic context. In this discussion, in a broader sense, it is necessary to consider the educational, technological, social, political and economic transformations that intersect in the Brazilian globalized reality. Through the case study, we aim to identify how social pre-university students can organize themselves didactic-pedagogically as non-formal education initiatives to work in Cyberspace, thus appropriating dominant informational techniques in order to expand the supply of popular education in digital media. For this purpose, segmented focus group analyzes were carried out with the course coordination and teaching staff, seeking a qualitative understanding of how the process has been carried out in recent years, focusing on the period 2020 to 2023, with the aim of providing data that supports the relevance of non-formal teaching through Cyberspace. Among the procedures adopted were a survey of metrics regarding the profile of students, approvals, number of registrations, annual dropout rates and mapping of the municipalities of origin of those involved.