Edvaldo Souza Couto

Estratégias de visibilidade e ações docentes no Twitter

This paper is result of a search that aimed to analyze the visibility strategies and teacher actions used by Brazilian teachers on Twitter. The article is a qualitative study, ethnographic, made through covert observation and tweet analysis of a teachers group that have active account on Twitter. The main argument is that the visibility on Twitter is a social capital wrought by means of strategies that the individuals established on Social Networks Sites. This capital is singular, seeing that being active on the network, giving opinions, doing some considerations, sharing, constitutes educational action and results in social and economic valorization. The study concludes that the mediated visibility on Twitter is a way to achieves the social valorization on teachers dimension, inasmuch as to achieve visibility is to accumulate some kind of social capital, being, therefore, a professional strategy.

O convívio acadêmico: representações sociais de alunos com Necessidades Educacionais Especiais

Clearly the role of the university and its commitment to providing a more equitable and democratic education for all young people and contribute to the development of knowledge and realization of inclusive policies. This study aimed to apprehend and analyze the social representations of students with special educational needs in higher education on academic living. The method used was the case study, descriptive and exploratory study, qualitative, grounded in the procedural approach of the Social Representations Theory, realized in a state university of Bahia. To collect the data was used as technique the semi-structured interview and the questionnaire as instrument. To analyze the results we used the technique of Thematic Content Analysis Categorical, from which emerged the following categories and subcategories: Difficulties and Limitations (Attitudinal Barriers, Barriers Pedagogical) and Interpersonal Relationships (Interpersonal Relation with Colleagues; Interpersonal Relationship with Teachers). Was evidenced unpreparedness of the university, and of the professionals who are part of them, in the sense of to provide the inclusion and appropriate care to students with special educational needs. It is necessary that the university invests in definition of institutional policies to construction of inclusive actions that benefit the teaching/learning process and social interaction of students with special educational needs.

Convergence of resources and mediation for digital inclusion: cases from Bahia

From studies of cyberculture, with emphasis on digital inclusion, this article discusses aspects of a research development that seeks to examine the subject of mediation and convergence of resources on digital inclusion in the State of Bahia. Our focus is on points of digital inclusion (PID) of three municipalities in Bahia checked as potential for the adoption of an access