Práticas informacionais para a construção da cidadania: um estudo de caso sobre os atores sindicais da rede Municipal de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The issues concerning the social sharing of information and knowledge in the society guided this research; its main objective is to analyze how education unionist actors of the Municipal Education Net of Belo Horizonte perceive and organize their information practices in order tobuild citizenship. Empirically, a case study was accomplished in a union because it is the place where social actors create ways of sharing and building knowledge and information. The methodological procedures involved bibliographical research. To the field research, it was used observation and non-structured interview techniques, besides the analysis of several documents. The achieved results point out the relevance of interaction among social actors as a way of promoting a wide sharing of information and knowledge in the society.