Modeling as a complementary tool in the teaching of Communication Theory

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the modeling experience realized in Communication Theory II discipline in Journalism and Radio, TV and Internet graduation courses of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Through the elaboration of a sculpture that reflected the idea of communication, the dynamics proposal was to make students articulate the conception created with the theory learned in class. Thinking of dialogism in the discursive aspect and about the participative and transforming dimension of communicative practice, the production of a common meaning sought to bring them closer to theories and give them conditions to reflect critically on communicational role’s significance.