EDUCATION AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: PATHWAYS TO INNOVATION AND INCLUSION IN BASIC EDUCATION

2ª Edição

Abstract

The work Thoughts and words about education brings together reflections, research and experiences from education professionals from different regions of Brazil, composing a plural mosaic of perspectives on contemporary pedagogical practice. In this second edition, the book reaffirms its commitment to the collective construction of knowledge, by bringing together voices that dialogue with different realities, different sociocultural contexts and common challenges to Brazilian education.
More than a set of texts, this work constitutes a meeting space between theory and practice, between science and experience, between school and society. The chapters presented here cover relevant and current themes, such as inclusion, neuroscience, digital technologies, playfulness, assessment, nutrition, family relationships, gamification and cultural practices, highlighting the complexity and multidimensionality of the educational field.
Throughout the pages, the reader will find reasoned discussions, critical analyzes and pedagogical proposals that contribute to strengthening a more equitable, humanized and contextualized education. Each chapter, in its own way, expands the understanding of teaching and learning, reaffirming the role of the educator as mediator, researcher and agent of social transformation.
The chapter Education and Digital Technologies: paths to innovation and inclusion in Basic Education discusses the role of digital technologies in the contemporary educational context, highlighting their potential to promote more inclusive, interactive pedagogical practices and aligned with the demands of today's society.
In the chapter The Importance of Playful Activities in the Teaching and Learning Process of Children in Early Childhood Education, the authors highlight playing as a central language of childhood and a structuring element of pedagogical practices, highlighting its contribution to the child's integral development.
In What every teacher needs to know about the neuroscience of learning, the fundamentals of neuroscience applied to education are presented, with an emphasis on aspects such as attention, memory, emotion and brain plasticity, contributing to more conscious and grounded teaching practices.
In Assessment in Early Childhood Education: a teacher's view, the authors discuss assessment concepts and practices, highlighting assessment as a continuous, formative and essential process for monitoring child development.
The chapter School and family: an essential partnership for child development analyzes the importance of articulation between these two educational contexts, highlighting the role of dialogue and co-responsibility in the educational process.
The chapter Gamification and learning: motivation in digital times investigates the use of game elements in the educational context, highlighting their potential to increase student engagement and motivation.
In Ultra-processed foods: a change in eating behavior that poses risks to the physical and mental health of students, the authors analyze the impacts of consuming these foods on health and academic performance, proposing reflections on eating habits.
In Contributions of cognitive neuroscience to mathematics learning for students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the relationship between neurocognitive processes and mathematics learning is discussed, proposing inclusive pedagogical strategies.
Finally, the chapter Solving additive problems in inclusive education: contributions from Vergnaud's conceptual field theory to teaching mathematics to deaf students analyzes mathematical learning from the perspective of inclusion, highlighting the importance of representations and pedagogical mediation.
The chapter Storytelling and critical formation in a quilombola context presents oral narrative as a powerful pedagogical practice, capable of promoting identity, historical awareness and critical formation in specific contexts.
Finally, Pedagogical coordination as a space for continued training: learning from a municipal network, concludes the work by resuming and deepening central issues in the contemporary educational field, by articulating theoretical foundations and practical implications that reinforce the need for an education committed to inclusion, critical reflection and the integral formation of subjects, inviting the reader to understand that the discussions presented throughout the book do not end here, but are projected as a continuation of a permanent process of construction, dialogue and transformation in doing pedagogical.
This work reaffirms that thinking about education is, above all, a collective exercise of listening, reflection and commitment. The chapters gathered here show that, although the contexts are diverse, there is a common purpose: to understand and qualify educational practices in the face of contemporary challenges.
By going through these pages, the reader is invited not only to access knowledge, but to pto problematize them, to give them new meaning and, above all, to transform them into conscious pedagogical action. May this book inspire new questions, strengthen existing practices and contribute to the construction of a more just, critical and sensitive education to the multiple realities of the country.
Thus, Thoughts and Words on Education does not end in itself. It extends into classrooms, research, meetings between educators and, above all, the experiences lived by those who make education a permanent space of construction and transformation.
It was a pleasure to be, once again, alongside this group, contributing to the organization of a work already consolidated in practice; it was up to us to encourage the authors to convert these highly relevant productions into written language, in order to share them with the educational community, thus resuming the meaning of the work's title itself by giving discursive form to the thoughts and realities experienced in the field of education.
Joice Marisa Görgen Junqueira