Effects of a sense of professor displacement in a virtual pedagogical seminar

Abstract

This study, which has a discursive and educational approach, focuses on pedagogy for Distance Education in a telematic environment in higher education. It aims at showing sense effects manifested in interlocutions of participants of a virtual pedagogical seminar, in extracts of statements that discuss the role of professors. The analytical procedure stresses the discursive functioning of the verb to be like a linguistic clue that indicates effects of a sense of professor displacement. It can be observed that the production of senses in writing in a mediating virtual environment provides visibility to the in-between place of tension between heterogeneity determined by collective construction in the mediating environment and the individual’s tendency, in a pedagogical condition, of forming the one, aiming at sense stabilization. Key words: telematic environment, virtual seminar, pedagogical discourse, professor.