Teaching and catalyzing practices: possibilities among the influences of digital cultures and human social values

Abstract

In this article, it is introduced a research about a representative group of six teachers of public schools in Curitiba, defined by Hagemeyer, as catalyzing teachers, that understands the new interests and values generated by the culture of digital media in students of the present day school, seeking to identify the tendencies, new logics and possibilities that are present in their practice. It establishes the position from which teachers speak, in the panorama of contemporary changes that interfere in teaching and in Pedagogy courses, based in Costa, Hall and Giroux. In order, to reassume the concepts of subject, subjectivity and ethics. The qualitative research was based in Shulman and the analysis was supported by Foucault and Guattari, and has identified in the teaching practice, strategies referential that recover the values of the students, articulating them with the human social values. Such reflections demand from courses of teachers formation, analysis about the processes of digital media in the youth cultures.