Comunidades de prática à luz do regime de informação: ações de informação no Instituto Federal da Paraíba

This study focused on the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, and proposes to the institution the promotion of group arrangements analogous to communities of practice as an informal resource to energize the informational flow in decision making and problem solving demanded by the formal activities and/or signaled om the information regime itself. It aimed to analyze, in the light of the information regime, the group arrangements analogous to the "communities of practice" at IFPB resulting from the actions of information in the management betweeen education, research and extension; to establish a conceptual and methodological approach between the ideas of communities of practice and information regime under the prism of Information Science; to configure the Information Regime of the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, via the design and description of its elements: contexts, information actions, social actors, devices and artifacts; map the group arrangements analogous to communities of practice based on records of information actions on teaching, research and extension of an institution; and, to propose, in light of the Information Regime of the studied institution, a model of communites of practice that considers its informal nature and contributes to the formal demands of the institution through actions of information of managers of the academic tripod. Its methodological processes were guided by qualitative research, utilizing bibliographical, documental, exploratory, and descriptive research, and a case study. All of this under the technniques of questionnaire application and content analysis. It resulted in ponderings about the multiple and abrangent views of the information regime and the community practice, establishing weaves and vicissitudes of the relationship between the terms. It configured the group arrangements of the selected institution through the records of information action that can energize the collaborative learning process mediated by ...