Professor's conceptions about the educational use of information and communication technologies in relation to teaching-learning processes in the classroom

Abstract

This research has as its main purpose understand the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and the relationship between the teacher’s conceptions of learning and teaching of history teachers in Valdivia. The investigation is sponsor by the Department of Research and Investigation Development of Universidad Austral de Chile (Nº DID S-200617).

The methodology approch is cualtitative, following a case study design. The research worked with three history teachers of Valdivia, using an interpretation method, that seeks to describe, understand and get to know deeper the cases that are our subjects of study. The results of this investigation evidence that the categories that were built among a theoretical construction allowed the investigators characterized properly the educational uses of ICT in history teachers, among these we found two cases in which there was a relationship between the speech and the way the used ICT inside the classroom, but the third case showed weakness.