Potentialities of technical visits in university teaching: applications in disciplines of information representation

Abstract

The educational practice carried out in higher education institutions represents a praiseworthy activity, above all because it provides vocational training. Although it is a very important task, challenges are constantly permeating university teaching, which requires constant reform of teaching methods adopted in classrooms. Therefore, this text deals with the contributions of the technical visits and the reflexes promoted by them when applied in technical-operational disciplines, in the Superior Course of Librarianship. It also presents theoretical foundations on university teaching, some characteristics of the technical visits and reflections regarding the higher education of Librarianship – focusing on the disciplines of Documentary Representation. This is a descriptive study of a qualitative nature, being conducted through a participatory research carried out in two disciplines of Library Science: Descriptive Representation I and II, whose technique used in data collection was direct observation. In order to strengthen the collected evidence, the study also establishes dialogues with the literature, through bibliographic research. It was verified that the technical visits function as pedagogical instruments that provoke the motivation and engagement of the participants with the learning, as well as promote the identification and visibility of the cataloging practices in bibliographic collections. In summary, the visits greatly contribute to the teaching of technical subjects, such as the cataloging of documents, providing a fusion between theory and practice; between the classroom and the labor market.