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| Author(s): |
Heloá Cristina Camargo de Oliveira
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Marília. 2020-12-08. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências. Marília |
| Defense date: | 2020-11-30 |
| Advisor: | Oswaldo Francisco de Almeida Júnior; José Antônio Frías Montoya |
| Abstract | |
This thesis sought to understand a gnoseological “point of view” of mediation, so that its scope and limitations can be understood, having as main investigative focuses expressions of mediation, information mediation and world reading mediation, seeking to relate these aspects of Information Science activities in the face of culturally marginalized communities. These aspects are dependent on different social, cultural, historical, and geographical specificities and, therefore, to discuss them, it is interesting to maintain a perspective that takes such phenomena into account. Phenomenology brings the possibility of finding in objectivity exposed in complex realities the objectivity that cannot be separated from the phenomenon, but that, separated from it, is still an axiom of the established relationship; it characterizes, therefore, a north that aims to explore phenomena without disregarding a phenomenological chain that impacts them. The main objective of this work is to analyze aspects of the nature of mediation under a phenomenological view, seeking to identify and understand the moment when the mediation process begins and how it is perpetuated in different complex realities. The research was designed in line with the Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research code, to remain in an ethically responsible and free from prejudice development. Two stages of research and analysis were carried out, the first being bibliographic and with support and guidance from the Discursive Textual Analysis method, and the second of an ethnographic nature (Symbolic Interactionism), using the instruments: bibliographic survey, semi-structured interview and observation. In Brazil, the research was carried out in an indigenous village (A´uwe - Xavante), and, in Spanish, with a group of immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa. As results, stand out: from the studied conceptions (Hegel - philosophical perspective; Marx - social; and Vygotsky - educational psychology), it was identified that the activity of mediating is anchored in the search for the impact on human development, in the immaterial scope consciousness and the human cognitive process - carries characteristics of transformation, evolution and/or overcoming, emphasizing the importance of social spaces, appropriation, and reciprocal or reflective material impacts of mediation. It was identified that the reading of the world, even if it is individual, recognizes the collectivity of a being that develops continuously, with a changing and reflective informational universe. It was possible to understand that marginalized societies, although individually complex and constantly evolving, have contextual similarities and that the understanding of this and its impact on behaviors and needs can help mediating work. Serious difficulties for work and development were identified in the educational centers visited and, due to the complexity of the studied context and existing formative limitations, such difficulties can be considered predictable for reproduction in similar contexts. Conclusively, it is considered that the recognition of the potential facilitator of the information mediator in the composition of a perspective that favors interdisciplinarity can result in an approximation between marginalized societies and culturally hegemonic and/or colonizing environments, resignifying information services and thus contributing to the development of an intercultural society. As a suggestion for future work, initial designs are presented for the creation of an application that concentrates guidelines and practice models, aimed at information professionals, for the support and expansion of the work of these professionals beside marginalized communities. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/08053-4 - The nature of information mediation under a phenomenological view |
| Grantee: | Heloá Cristina Camargo de Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |