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Didactic edition. Press didactic materials to Distance Education. Distance Education.
The scenery of Distance Education in the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte there is changes related to de function, structure, support and press didactic material use. Then, this research studies the book in a university context of Distance Education, focusing on editing and production practices. Diverse references – Peters (2003, 2009), Preti (2010), Moran (2002), Aretio (2002), Moore and Kearsley (2007), Filatro (2004, 2015) – pointed to the necessity of didactic material to mediate teaching-learning process in the Distance Education and, therefore, to be dialogic and collaborative to promote interaction among subjects involved in this process. This research has as base Paulo Freire’s (1979, 1980, 1982, 1987, 2001, 2004, 2009) dialogic conception, that is support to the structuration of politic-pedagogic projects of Distance Education courses from the Secretaria de Educação a Distância of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, locus to the development of this research. This study investigates editing practices in the production of press didactic material to the Distance Education, detaching the roles of structure and language revisor and content teacher, subjects responsible directly for the editing process, analyzing how is the dialog between these subjects, based on first versions of press materials produced in the Secretaria de Educação a Distância. It develops the concept of didactic editing as a group of functions and strategies to mediate the production of materials, the learning process, and the relationship among different subjects (teacher and students). Data are taken from first versions of didactic materials press produced by this institution, from 2014 to 2018, in a total of 20 disciplines, related to the Pedagogy, Language/Literature, Physical Education and Chemical courses. This is a qualitative study, with exploratory aiming and methodological procedures to the literature review, based on this, it was possible to identify that working with first versions of materials produced by the content teacher is important to verify the effectiveness of revision sequence and how is its influence to the final product. Based on data analysis, it shows the choose of a graphic project is directly responsible for the way the material is created, as well as for the process of didactic production in this institution. The didactic edition is the process which the didactic material goes through until reaching its final product and it has three important functions to the production process – orientation and communication among staff and subjects involved; compliance with the structure and to the normative characteristics required by the didactic material; didactic-pedagogical orientations to the writing – considering a group of strategies from didactic editing called categories. Results aim to guide revisor trainee, the production of didactic materials to the Distance Education and the politics to this sector that consider the function of didactic materials and its importance to the distance learning.