Formação docente em ambientes virtuais: quando os professores de biologia aprendem à distância

Abstract

In view of the expansion process of distance education in the field of teacher education, the main objective of this article is to investigate the conception of undergraduate students in Distance Biological Sciences at the Federal University of Paraíba regarding virtual learning environments in Brazil. teacher training process. To this end, interviews were carried out with five students in training, and their conceptions were analyzed under the perspective of materialist dialectics. This theoretical-methodological framework was adopted so that it was possible to analyze all the contradictions inherent to such training, from which it was possible to realize that, although there is a possibility of learning from virtual environments, this process has been compromised due to the way that distance courses have been developed, either due to the lack of adequacy of those involved in the process, or mainly due to the policy of cutting investments in education adopted by the Brazilian government.