O estudo faz a análise sobre o uso de produtos midiáticos comerciais e de ficção, jornal e programa televisivo, em situação formal de ensino. O principal objetivo é entender a metodologia de ensino quando da iserção de produtos midiáticos, ou seja, educação pela mídia; e como esta metodologia contribui para a capacidade de leitura crítica dos mesmos ou através deles, ou seja, educação para a mídia. Estas abordagens sobre a relação educação e comunicação estão abarcadas no conceito de Educomunicação, apresentado neste trabalho.

This post-graduation research on Communication and Education is addressed to both the observation and systematic analysis of a teaching and apprenticeship process focusing a group of young people between 16 and 17 years old, students of th first grade at Colégio Maria Montessori, occurred from 1998 through 1999, considering the actuation of both the teacher and the pedagogic project which intended to develop a teaching practice about and through the media. The purpose is to understand how the education-communication process occurs by the insertion of cultural products of the media within a controlled situation of formal teaching, especially during History classes. The goal is to understand the development of the teaching/apprenticeship process when some media products, such as newspapers and fiction television programs are inserted, whether as pedagogic strategies or as objects for studies among the young students, focusing the pedagogic procedures applied at the insertion of these products at the framework of the formal teaching. In a general way, it is intended to evaluate how the interventions became present during the studies of the subjects focused at the classrooms, especially those performed by the teachers, but also those related to media products and students, as well as to fictional and non-fictional lectures that interact during the knowledge building up process performed by the students