Competência informacional: um estudo com os professores associados I do Centro de Tecnologia da UFPB

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Monica de Paiva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Ciência da Informação; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Competência Informacional; Gestão da Informação; Gestão do Conhecimento; Aprendizagem; Ciência da Informação; Information Management; Knowledge Management; Informational Literacy; Learning; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::CIENCIA DA INFORMACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8721

In the present society, characterized by the intensive use of information and by knowledge sharing, it is an essential condition for the individual to know how to access and use the information in an efficient way. As concerns the academic context, such requirement is even more imperative, especially because information and knowledge underlie teaching and research activities accomplished by the professors. This requires a major demand for information use by this professional. In this regard, in order to correspond to the change challenges which have been occurring in the educational and informational systems, new competences are claimed, highlighting the informational literacy – study area which deals with skills referring to place and information use - associated to new technologies. In this perspective, the aim of such work was to know the development processes of the informational literacy of the associated I professors from the Technological Centre of Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), identifying, thus, the elements which influence such process as well as the learning strategies used and the demands for informational literacy of such professors. This research presents, as subjects, the associated I professors from the Technological Centre of UFPB and as data collection instrument, the questionnaire and the semi-structured interview. With respect to the last one, the life history method, centered on topic, was adopted. The data were analyzed in a quantitative and qualitatively way by the content analysis technique. The results obtained reveal that the researched professors developed some skills while searching for and using the information. However, they need to widen other skills so that excellence in informational literacy is attained. The experiences in training and monitorship during undergraduation course as well as the participation in scientific events and the use of libraries both in the undergraduation and in the graduation courses, besides the experiences with administrative positions and coordination of research groups in the professional context, influenced positively the development of the informational literacy of the researched professors, enabling, thus, the increase of practical and cognitive activities. It can be perceived that the development processes of the informational literacy of the researched professors evolve in differentiated contexts from formal and informal leanings. The first one, related to knowledge acquired by means of undergraduation and graduation courses, reveals that the researched professors have been investing in continuous education, aiming to enlarge their formation focused on the professional aspect. On the other hand, informal learning is noted in the development of informational literacy‟s pertaining to the use of resources such as: library, computer, Internet and electronic database which have been developed in an unplanned way from individual initiatives and not systematically. In this sense, it is understood that the informational literacy development, in the academic context, should be enhanced even from the undergraduation course and, then reinforced in the graduation course, aiming to a better use of information and, consequently, a major intellectual development of students and a better performance in researches.