Repensando o ensino – aprendizagem em administração por uma perspectiva sociomaterial: as inovações educacionais de forte mudança material

Abstract

It is impossible to deny the obsolescence of classrooms that still portray layouts and structures from the last century, trapped in conceptions that continue to be associated with large container boxes with students sitting in a row listening to someone in front of them. In business schools we do not find a different reality and their classrooms do not reflect an adequate environment for the demands of contemporary management. In order to rethink this context, this thesis aims to explain how sociomateriality sustains and illuminates the renewal of education in administration. However, we evidenced in the research field a limited view of the role of materiality as a "means" for learning and almost inexistence of understanding of its social issues. We also identified a limited and fragmented literature on educational innovation in management education that is restricted to addressing only content and method issues. Therefore, this study sought to be anchored mainly in sociomaterial theories and educational innovation, and added to this theoretical framework research on educational atmospheres, material intra-actions and educational environments with their temperaments and climates. The methodological path involved a multiple case study with 20 educational institutions that adopted strong material changes as an educational innovation strategy. The sources involved images, documents, videos, observations and interviews. Through thematic analysis we identify how educational innovations with strong material changes transform environments, typifying spaces, changing their atmospheres, from drivers that produce sociomaterial effects and renew learning. The entire path and results of this research are organized in the academic production of five papers. The first paper aimed to systematize and discuss the academic production on the materiality of the Teaching-Learning in Administration (EAA), highlighting sociomateriality as a perspective for the advancement of future research. The second paper aimed to systematize the academic production on educational innovations in administration, integrating multidisciplinary contributions that provoke advances in future research. The third paper aimed to explain the effects of educational innovation in EAA, from a sociomaterial approach. In the fourth paper, the focus was to explain what drives educational atmospheres to produce their effects, in the socio-material light in EAA. The fifth paper aimed to explain the relevance of educational innovations of strong material change for the development of skills and competencies in administration. The results of this research reinforce the importance of the sociomaterial perspective for the renewal of management education, as well as explain the innovations with strong material change as strategies compatible with the demands of contemporary management education. This research contributes to the consolidation, renewal and expansion of the sociomaterial perspective in management education; for the consolidation, renewal and expansion of research in educational innovation in management education; and for the practice of educational managers, teachers, students, architecture, civil construction and design professionals and the entire academic community.