Technology’s role in non-formal education: reflections from practice

Abstract

Through various years of experience in the teaching field, the conclusion is arrived that the relationship between technological design and pedagogical model is fundamental for a true efficiency. In the educational model of reproduction, the objectives, in the field of Security and Hygiene, endeavour the repetition of knowledge and relate a series of habits. Doing so, it pretends to lessen probabilities of accident and infirmities. The repetition of a model is endeavoured. In this Educational model of Reproduction, the best appropriate design in the "traditional". This educational method is intended to prepare the individuals for an active adaptation to the new working requirements; with greater consciousness, less possibility of health deterioration. It intends to make the subject to be able to protect himself, give warning where there is danger, denounce a situation, etc. For this Pedagogic Method of Adaptation, the appropriate technological design in that of present educational technology. The individual has to take conscience and personal development through group conscientizations. In these moments, the learning objectives in the health prevention field are changing. For this, a new adapted technological design is necessary: the Pedagogical Model of Production (PMP). The model idea of the PMP resides in the fact that in greater cognitive appropriation of the real, major change probability in the working conditions in the field of health preventions in the job. The individual is the agent of his own formation as is also socially. This production model intends to analyze the conditions of the real daily situation and relationships and social dimensions between the persons before establishing its objectives and the planning of its realization.