Escrita colaborativa na Wikipédia : uma estratégia complexa de aprendizagem.

Abstract

Considering my teaching and academic journey, I proposed, as a central theme of this research, to study about the learning resulting from the action of collaborative writing for Wikipedia. The general objective can be scaled by the intention to understand characteristics of learning among participants in the action of writing collaboratively for Wikipedia. More specifically, it was necessary to understand the anarchist and democratic ideological character that constitutes the cooperative elaboration of Wikipedia; relate the research participants' learning to the theoretical framework of complexity; understand how the learning process happens from the digital technological coupling; and, to investigate collaborative writing as an enhancer of other ways of learning. The research of this thesis was of a qualitative nature and took place according to the steps of a cartographic methodology. The participants in the empirical experience generating the research data were members of the research group called Language, Culture and Education - LinCE, from the line of research Learning, Technologies and Language in Education, of the Graduate Program in Education at the University of Santa Cruz do Sul - UNISC, RS, Brazil. The first contact with them took place at a meeting of the research group in which I explained my objective. To better understand the previous experiences of the group involved, I proposed conducting a semi-structured interview using an online form. Considering this initial knowledge, I took to the research group the proposal for an extension course called: Unraveling Wikipedia: An Authoring Experience. From there, a group of five colleagues showed interest in the subject and came to the meetings. The course was developed in face-to-face and virtual meetings, totaling twenty hours. During the meetings, interaction with the platform tools took place, it was discussed which contribution the group would like to make and the collaborative writing of an entry on Wikipedia was elaborated. The meetings provided constant moments of invention / reinvention of knowledge by everyone. We perceive the intensification of the dialogue; changes in attitudes that refer to the configuration we understand as collaboration, that is, ways of being with others in the learning processes. Thus, different conceptions about the action of writing collaboratively emerged, showing the possibilities of this practice as a complex learning strategy. I bring the perceptions stitched together with reports of my constitution as a researcher, aware that the experience continues, just as, increasingly, new perceptions will emerge along the paths of our ways of learning.