Creation of Podcasts to Promote Students’ Engagement in Technical and Vocational Schools

Engaged students have more chances to achieve personal e academic success. Schools have the challenge of promoting student engagement, which uses several pedagogical tools. A podcast is a potential tool to promote academic engagement. Listening to podcasts is an innovative way to consume didactic content, but developing podcasts transforms students into the constructor of their knowledge. This paper presents a methodological proposal for the creation of a podcast development framework, focused on pedagogical use as a classroom didact activity in technical and vocational schools, using the theories of student engagement as pedagogical structures. Design-Based Research (DBR) is the methodological approach chosen for this investigation. DBR structure shows cyclical e iterative steps to develop a solution for a pedagogical problem in the following structure: (a) Literature analysis to understand the problem context; (b) Professors and students of the technical and vocational schools were indicated as stakeholders of this investigation; (c) Initial study applied to understand how academic engagement occur in technical and vocational schools; (d) Prototypes built, tested and refined; (e) A full version of the framework was analyzed; (f) Surveys, interviews, documental research, and logbooks used as collect data tools, and; (f) the data analyzed and used for a refining step of the podcast development framework. This study offers relevant discussions on the process of developing a pedagogical intervention and, in addition, designs an investigation to understand students’ engagement in technical and vocational schools.