SOCIOINTERATIVE ENTROPY: from interaction to dropout in virtual learning environments in an initial training course for Spanish-speaking teachers.
SOCIOINTERATIVE ENTROPY; Complexity Theory; dropout; AVA; training of Spanish-speaking teachers.
Research carried out by teachers who work in the Portuguese / Spanish Literature course at UFMS, in the distance modality, in addition to teaching experience, there is a recurrence of the phenomena of interaction as an element of balance or imbalance in the maintenance of the group. Thus, from the work of Parreiras (2005) and Vetromille-Castro (2007), whose research is closely related to the maintenance of groups based on the dynamics of Complex Adaptive Systems, the intention arose, within the scope of the Doctoral Program in Language Studies at CEFET-MG, to deepen the relationship between interactivity in virtual learning environments and the phenomenon of dropout, seeking to understand the patterns of interactivity within the AVA that precede school dropout. The research seeks to deepen the work carried out by Vetromille-Castro (2008) who addressed, in his doctoral thesis, socio-interactive entropy as an element that destabilizes any and all Complex Adaptive Systems constituting a Virtual Learning Environment. The author also points out that interaction is a systemic condition so that entropy does not overlap the functioning and dynamics of the group causing the closure of its cycle. In this way, we seek to find out in which dimension entropy destabilizes the system and at what moment it causes evasion. Indeed, based on these considerations, we seek to better understand our work as teachers at a public institution of higher education that seeks to find control mechanisms for evasion.