The Degree in Computing in Brazil: historical and current context

Abstract

Social transformations oblige us to (re) think about education, to reframe pedagogical practices, creating learning situations consistent with the needs of today's world. Today, education is increasingly using technological devices as a means to improve the teaching-learning process, and to accompany this achievement, schools need not only material but also human apparatus. The teacher in this context is called upon to change his practices, to adhere to an era that requires competencies focused on the use of digital technologies. Thus, Brazilian education through public policies, wages a decades-long struggle to computerize schools and, consequently, to insert a professional with a degree in Computing in the educational context. For, the teaching of computing and informatics has been attributed to this professional. The Degree in Computing aims to train citizens to exercise both in corporations in the areas focused on computing and the pedagogical practice in educational environments. In this sense, this article aims to trace the implementation trajectory of the Computer Science Degree Courses in Brazil. The proposed approach was qualitative, through historical research. The text begins by inferring about the notoriety and importance of these courses for our time; second on the need for the training of this future teacher to be improved in practice through the implementation of innovative, linked methodologies such as the practice of solving problems in the daily life of schools; and third, the need to expand the field of employment for these teachers in the context of education networks.