AS HISTÓRIAS DE VIDA NA FORMAÇÃO DOCENTE UNIVERSITÁRIA

Abstract

The current study, named Stories of life in the University Teaching Staff Formation, aims at the comprehension of the complex process of formation of the university teacher in Brazil. In spite of holding diverse ways of understanding related to formation, very different from historic discussions and policy of formation of all levels and areas of teaching, the university teacher ends up graduating in the practice. According to Vicente Benedito (1995) and Cunha (2007) whose studies point out the exercise of teaching self-formation, to a system that covers almost three thousand institutions of higher education, considering that over 90% of the organizations follow the isolated model and not the university one, this way gathering thousands of teachers, not representing a general agreement basis, though. Generically, in the most commonly known places, the university teacher is understood to be the professional, the researcher, and egress from the stricto senso programs, primordially with doctorate s degree. But if the censures of higher education coordinated by MEC/INEP are added to that sum, the number of teachers that have got only the graduation level or even a latu sensu degree is significant and working. However, they are graduating in the everyday life of mediations, among the triad lifework- survival . We opted to get to know those processes based on the story of the teaching career of guest teachers in Univesidade Católica de Goiás. The methodology record of qualitative research with a phenomenological view demarcates an early appropriation of this reality that gives comfort and requires more time, studies and problematic situations. The explanatory empiric basis of our investigation was composed of fourteen subjects, whose life stories in the subjectivity and singularity that they provide, demarcate a determined professional horizon. Our research provided us with means to recognize the processes of formation, as well as the difficulties faced by the university teacher in the institution referred. A kind of selective process in which teachers are employed according to indication of other teachers with whom they are acquainted, or even the influence of relatives, the lack of practice and experience in teaching to a public of university education, the lack of support from the pedagogic coordination, with low workload and without teaching complementary activities, low salaries, professional instability. Though the narratives made by the teachers in question, we can notice the strong influence of their life stories over their professional profile. Made present is to form, practice teacher professional choice to derive from imitation and identification other teachers and family ties.