Resistência e/ou alinhamento ao colonialismo digital: Uma pesquisa sobre o Grupo de Educadores Google (GEG) em sua complexidade

Abstract

The advent of digital technologies provides diverse learning opportunities, but also causes controversial issues to emerge, in a colonial movement of exploitation and accumulation of capital, historically instituted in our lives and socially reproduced in different spheres. A teacher training environment, concerned with teacher training and, consequently, with student training, must problematize such emerging issues of contemporaneity, for a critical, reflective and engaged teacher training. In this context, this research seeks to understand how the Google Educators Group (GEG) constitutes a Complex Adaptive System (SAC) that aligns with or enables practices of resistance to digital colonialism. Specifically, the research seeks to: (1) identify elements of complexity and complex emergence in the GEG; (2) identify which attractors and affordances emerge from the context and (3) map the possibilities of resistance and alignment with digital colonialism that emerge in/from the system. The research is based on theoretical and methodological assumptions of the Complexity Paradigm, decolonial perspectives, and digital (de)coloniality. This study has a qualitative approach and an interpretive focus, with an ethnographic nature, analyzing and interpreting some subsystems, namely: (a) GEG Uberlândia; (b) posts on the GEG Brazil blog; (c) my experience as a GEG leader; (d) narratives of other GEG leaders; (e) other interactions within GEG. Field notes, learning narratives, blog posts, and interactions on WhatsApp function as data collection instruments. The results indicate that some attractors mean that there are few new possibilities on the part of the system's agents, as there appears to be no interaction between neighbors strong enough for new concepts to be created, problematized, or discussed, mainly due to the propagation of worldviews that make colonialist logic make sense, but there are certain resistance movements that must be fostered. Thus, certain attempts to resist digital colonialism, however timid they may be, must be nurtured so that a project of digital decoloniality can be considered.