TV Escola na era digital: trajetória e perspectivas educacionais e culturais

Abstract

The presented object of study in this thesis is TV Escola- one of the Ministry of Education’s policies. TV Escola is found in the convergence of the communication and education fields; areas of complex relations, once many political interests cross these two knowledge. Underlies in this study the understanding that nowadays we live under constant technological and social changes, which modify the media and all the other mediation systems of interactions in general, causing and stressing inequalities. Being so, from the Political Economy of Communication, in a wide prospective, that considers specific relations between communicational and educational phenomena, the thesis consists in understanding how the potential of the program TV Escola is being explored, also how its path and educational and cultural perspectives are being glimpsed with the possibilities of the future digital TV in the school environment. Seeking to reflect about how the availability and usage of this technology may promote new ways of te