Dispositivo de inovação: produção da/o estudante ativa/o no ensino superior

Abstract

Higher education teachers are invited to innovate in their educational practices, using methodologies that favor the production of active students. These are characterized by autonomy, protagonism and participation in learning activities. The students are therefore encouraged to self-govern their behaviors in order to be jointly responsible for their learn-ing. In this direction, this article aims to analyze the discursive techniques triggered in the production of this autonomous student who is the protagonist of their formation. The cor-pus of the research is constituted by the circulating sayings in the Pedagogical Projects of Undergraduate Courses (PPC), in a course in the modality distance of training of university teachers, as well as interviews with participants of this training. The theoretical and ana-lytical tools of the philosopher Michel Foucault were used as reference, namely: device, dis-course, power, technique and self-government. Through the methodological network that articulated elements of educational netnography, narrative interviews and the analysis of Foucauldian-inspired discourse, the argument arose that autonomy, participation and pro-tagonism are triggered as techniques of government that affect the conduct of students and integrate themselves into the device of innovation. We conclude that the production of this active student serves the functioning of the “innovation society”.