Teaching of International Relations in Distance Learning: the Experience of the Public Administration Course

Abstract

The present work has as main objective to analyze the integrative tools in the development of ranged education in the discipline of International Relations, within the scope of the semi-presential course in Public Administration at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Which is offered in partnership with the Rio de Janeiro's Ranged Superior Education Association (CEDERJ). Such an analysis is necessary due to the expansion of distance education in Brazil as an educational inclusion tool; and, especially in the space in question, of consolidating dialogical teaching channels focused on International Relations. Which have an interdisciplinary and comprehensive character, in addition to adding to the programmatic content of the discipline, several fields of training knowledge of public managers from the perspective of the international sphere. For this, the same semi-structured questionnaire was applied to students participating in the discipline in the first semester of the years 2017 and 2019. In this sense, it is possible to verify that the discipline of International Relations (IR) of the Public Administration course offers standard virtual instruments Moodle / CEDERJ's system, such as Distance Activities (ADs) and other standard instruments (notice board, tutoring room, among others), in addition to some additional instruments such as: the use of chats, and the adoption of videos, texts and blogs as complementary materials. In general, students consider the subject to be very interactive. However, fundamental spaces, such as the tutoring room, are still not perceived as effective for the promotion of dialogues and the construction of new knowledge.

Keywords: Semi-presential teaching. Interactive tools. Moodle