CNTE´s National seminar: The Internet and the union educators


How TICs can be used in union formation
Program
Policy and Union concept
Union leader formation
Planning and Union Administration
Objectives
Program
Program
Facing the mentioned challenges for its XXVIII National Congress, with the intention of creating instrument which allows developing activities for the formation of leaders, CNTE has been in existence since 2007 developing a Program of Formation for Union Leaders with the partnership of the Union of Educators from Sweden - LARARFORBUNDET. The Program presents the following points: Context, Policy and Union Concept, Formation of Union Leaders, Planning the Union Administration.
Policy and Union concept
Objective:
To provide the leaders with a theoretical and methodological basis of the concept and policy theories, of the history of the union and popular movement with an trimming within the workers` organization regarding education in Brazil.
Content:
Fascicles of Introduction to Sociology, Policy Theory, Economy Policy, Union Movement and Popular History, Union Movement in Education in Brazil.
Union leader formation
Objective:
To enable the policy and practical formation in the preparation of leaders offering a methodological formation.
Content: Fascicles of Foundations of Philosophy, Theory of Communication, Analysis of Conjuncture, Structuring and Union Organization, Collective Negotiation.
Status: Concluded
Planning and Union Administration
Objective:
To bring about elements that help to make the union a democratic entity, well administered, participating and collective for a greater effectiveness in the union action.
Content: Strategic planning, Strategic Planning of the Union Action, Union Administration and Democratic System of Relationships in Labor (SDRT).
Status: to develop. With the approach of the final stage of production of the theoretical material of the current Program of Formation and due to the need to think about the bases of continuation of the same, CNTE´s general office of Formation has summoned the National Seminar for the Program of Formation to be held on March 12th and 13th, 2009.
Objectives
1. to consider the progress and the limits of the Formation of Union Leaders in our entities starting from the experience of implementation of CNTE´s current Program of Formation;
2. to contribute to the process of elaboration of the new formation project for base entities with the use of the Internet and for the use of TICs - Technologies of Information and Communication - in interaction projects, formation, mobilization and organization;
3. to debate the possible relationships between computer science, education, participation, mobilization and democratization;
4. to evaluate the mobilization capacity and participation offered by the use of the computer;
5. to consider the use of TICs for the implementation of the defined policies for the organs and head teams of CNTE;
6. the development of formation projects for entities with the use of TICs.
Program
03/12/2009 - Thursday
From 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. - Presentation of the Evaluation of CNTE´s Program of Formation and the challenges to formulate a new formation project

Gilmar Soares Ferreira – CNTE´s Secretary of Formation, from10:30 to 12:30 – Panel Discussion 1: The working class and the appropriation of new technologies

Roberto Leão – CNTE´s President

Juçara Dutra Vieira – IEAL´s Vice-president and Executive Direction of CNTE

Marta Domingues - Advisor for SNF/CUT

Júlio Cézar Martins Viana - President of CUT/MT

12:30 – 1:30 p.m;- Lunch
13:30 - 4:00 p.m. – Panel Discussion 2: The use of TICs as a resource, the use of the computer in a union entity and the use of the personal page

Gumercindo Milhomem - Director of ESTUDO, Strategy and Information, website supplier: www.aomestre.com.br;
www.amccservicos.com.br;
www.e-estudo.com.br and www.escolanet.com.br.
Former president of Apeoesp and former regional vice-president of CPB

Basílio Miranda - Systems Analyst; technical director of Agit Informática; technically responsible for APEOESP´s Center of Data processing

Beatriz Rizek - Teacher of the School of the Future at USP
4:00 p.m. – Group Work: Taking into account the panel´s talks, to present proposals on how to elaborate the new formation project in CNTE

5:00 p.m. - Presentation of the groups´reports and closing

03/13/2009 - Friday
9:00 a.m. - Presentation of the systemization of group work and debate
10:00 a.m. - Directions for practical questions concerning the development of the Main Points of CNTE´s Program of Formation and other directions
1:00 p.m. - Closing and Lunch
2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Doubts and individual Orientations (if necessary).