Permanent Faculty Member

Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4023554724278836

Full Professor at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). CNPq PQ Fellow and FAPERJ Scientist of Our State. She works at the Institute of Education and the Postgraduate Program in Education (PPGEDUC). She was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), working in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs (PROPED/UERJ). Editor-in-Chief of the Revista Docência e Cibercultura (PROPED/UERJ), link: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/re-doc. Leader of the GPDOC – Teaching and Cyberculture Research Group. Member of the FORMACCE Observatory, Member of the Image Laboratory at UERJ. Member of the Scientific Council of Anped. Former Coordinator of GT 16 – “Education and Communication” of ANPED – Brazilian Association of Educational Research (2017 – 2021). Former Vice-President of ABCIBER – Brazilian Association of Researchers in Cyberculture (2017 – 2019), where she served as a Member of the Scientific Advisory Council. She teaches the course “Informatics in Education” in the Distance Pedagogy Program (UERJ/CEDERJ). She holds a degree in Pedagogy from UCSAL, a Master’s and Doctorate in Education from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), and a Post-Doctorate in e-Learning and Distance Education from the Universidade Aberta de Portugal (UAB-PT), where she occasionally collaborates in the MPEL – Master’s Program in Pedagogy of e-Learning. She works in the initial and continuing training of teachers and researchers. Her areas of expertise include: Education and Cyberculture, Research and Pedagogical Practices, Teacher Education, Didactics, Curriculum: theories, practices, and policies, Informatics in Education, Online Education, and Distance Learning (EAD).

CONTACT INFORMATION

E-mail: edmeasantos@ufrrj.br

RESEARCH LINE

• Line 1: Contemporary Studies and Educational Practices.

RESEARCH GROUP

• Teaching and Cyberculture Research Group – GPDOC
  Coordination: Edméa Oliveira dos Santos.

The GPDOC – Teaching and Cyberculture Research Group focuses on researching and developing studies and projects on teaching in contemporary times and the practices and processes of Cyberculture, especially Online Education and the processes of teaching and learning. It integrates the fields of Education, Communication, and Informatics. Its primary focus is the training of researchers and teachers in initial and continuing education processes. In this context, GPDOC aims to: Understand the socio-technical and cultural phenomena mediated by digital information and communication technologies and their implications for learning and teaching processes; Develop research methodologies and teaching and learning projects that link school curricula and other educational networks with communicational practices in cyberculture; Develop curricula and curriculum acts for online teaching practices; Map teaching knowledge for online teaching practices; Understand how digital interfaces can contribute to the production and management of knowledge.

Research Group’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gpdoc.ruralufrrj.3

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gpdoc.ufrrj/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GpdocRural

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbEICCaNAWxh22Wy-li057A

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Online Education in Stricto Sensu Graduate Programs: Cyber-research-training Experiences.
  Period: (2022 – Present)

Research Line: Languages and Pedagogical Practices. In this research, we aim to understand how online education can be practiced in Stricto Sensu graduate programs in cyber-research-training contexts within and outside Brazil, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodologically, we will continue studies on epistemologies of practices (Freire, Nóvoa, Josso, D’villa), with emphasis on a multireferential approach (Ardoino, Macedo, Morin, Babier, Beger, Boa Ventura de Sousa Santos), research on daily life (Alves, Certeau, Santos), and cyberculture (Santaella, Lemos, Levy, Santos). We will update the cyber-research-training method (Santos and GPDOC collective), a method that we have consolidated and updated with each new study. We conduct research in the contexts of teaching-research-teaching, thus not separating academic research from the daily lives of our graduate classrooms. We work in networks, with the training of researchers in education at PPGEDUC/UFRRJ (as Full Professor) and MPEL/UAB-PT (in collaborative teaching) in the city/cyberspace relationship. To this end, we will develop research and curriculum devices, mediated by the digital network, specifically in the bricolage with AVA (Virtual Learning Environments), social networks, and mobile apps.

Research Group: Teaching and Cyberculture Research Group – GPDOC

Funding: Productivity Fellow – PQ/CNPQ; Scientist of Our State Program – CNE/FAPERJ; Basic Research Aid in ICTs Based in the State of Rio de Janeiro (APQ1) – FAPERJ; Scientific Initiation Fellowships – PIBIC/UFRRJ and FAPERJ.

Keywords: Online Education; Stricto Sensu Graduate Programs; Researcher Training; Cyberculture.

• App-teaching: Research-training Experiences in Cyberculture.
  Period: (2018 – 2021)

Research Line: Daily Life, Educational Networks, and Cultural Processes. In this research, we aim to understand how teachers are formed and form themselves with the potential of mobile and ubiquitous technologies, specifically mobile devices and mobile apps (Apps), in various research-training contexts in cyberculture. Methodologically, we will continue studies on epistemologies of practices (Freire, Nóvoa, Josso, D’villa), with an emphasis on a multireferential approach (Ardoino, Macedo, Morin, Babier, Beger) and research on daily life (Alves). We will update the method of research-training in cyberculture (Santos and GPDOC collective), a method that we have consolidated and updated with each new research. We conduct research in teaching contexts, thus not separating academic research from the daily lives of our classrooms, whether face-to-face or online. We work in networks, training teachers in undergraduate and graduate education at UERJ, as well as in different educational networks and multireferential spaces in the city/cyberspace relationship. To this end, we will develop research and curriculum devices, mediated by the digital network, specifically with mobile apps. Mobile phones are cultural artifacts that are in the hands of all participants in our research, thus we will work with the ubiquitous training practices of cultural practitioners (teachers and researchers in training, teachers, museum educators, among others). Our research field will be forged in various educational networks and multireferential spaces. In these research fields, we will produce research material that will materialize in narratives, images, and sounds. With this research material (data), we will “converse” to establish an “analysis,” through the understanding of the understanding (Morin) of the research practitioners who form and shape us in context. We will perform hermeneutic interpretation (Macedo). Expected results include the training of the practitioners involved in the research, the creation of online curricula, updating the method of research-training in cyberculture, mobilizing knowledge, and promoting didactic, scientific, and urban multiliteracies. This is an institutional research that will unfold into axes and sub-projects, where we will have co-authorship from scientific initiation fellows, master’s students, and PhD students of GPDOC.

Research Group: Teaching and Cyberculture Research Group – GPDOC

Funding: Scientific Initiation Fellowships FAPERJ and PIBIC/UFRRJ.

Keywords: App-teaching; Research-training in Cyberculture; Online Education; Teacher Education; Multireferentiality; Daily Life.

• Data Analysis in Research-training in Cyberculture.
  Period: (2015 – 2018)

Research Line: Daily Life, Educational Networks, and Cultural Processes. The research project “Data Analysis in Research-training in Cyberculture” aims to investigate theories, practices, and devices that enhance the production, analysis, and interpretation of data produced in research-training contexts mediated by digital technologies in network. Over the last 10 years, we have updated the research-training method in cyberculture contexts, specifically in online education practices mediated by virtual environments and social networks in the city/cyberspace interface. In this context, we developed research devices, together with GPDOC – the Teaching and Cyberculture Research Group, where we aim to create research and training environments, producing data with teachers and researchers in various educational networks. The data produced in co-authorship materializes into narratives and digital images. Therefore, this project aims to better understand how to engage with these data and traces, producing meanings that not only structure communication, circulation, and scientific dissemination but also constitute another multireferential space for research and training. For this purpose, we organize the research into two foundational axes. In Axis 1, our goal is to produce a specific theoretical framework for interpreting data in digital contexts. We will use the multireferential approach, bricolaging inspirations from critical hermeneutics with post-structuralist theories. In Axis 2, our goal is to map and use software for data production and interpretation in digital contexts. We intend to contribute to the development of qualitative research in education, update the research-training method in cyberculture with a focus on data interpretation, and contribute to the training of the cultural practitioners involved in the project.

Research Group: Teaching and Cyberculture Research Group – GPDOC

Funding: Prociência UERJ/FAPERJ Program 2015, Scientific Initiation CNPQ.

Keywords: Research-training; Cyberculture; Daily Life; Multireferentiality; Data Analysis and Interpretation; Qualitative Research.

Personal Website: http://edmeasantos.pro.br/