Rádio e educação popular na Amazônia: o processo comunicacional do Projeto Rádio pela Educação

Abstract

The communication process that can be observed in the Radio Education Project of Rádio Rural in Santarém, in the heart of the Amazon Region, is the object of this research report. The aim was to investigate how this process happens in the movement between the production of a radio program, the orientation provided to teachers through a pedagogical guide and the actions realized in school, analyzing this way the relationship of radio communication with the educational practices realized. The work followed the culturalogical paradigm, considering the presence of radio as part of a process of interaction, of symbolic exchange. The methodological procedures had an inductive approach, forming a set of procedures with the historical and ethnographic methods, as well as aspects of reception research. The main techniques used were bibliographic and documentary research, field research and observation, with reference to the qualitative focus on observation, description and analysis of phenomena on the basis of some categories: the social actors involved, the listening to the program, the mediations during the whole process, the participation of teachers as facilitators and the dialogical perspective observed within the dynamic. It was found that the analyzed communication process develops in a movement of constant changing, following a rhythm that transforms it over time on the basis of the looks and actions of their actors or even of the own motivations caused by its impact on the educational environment, revealing the coexistence of the instrumental and the dialogical dimensions, radio being the mediator of the learning process.