A formação didático-pedagógica dos bacharéis docentes: uma análise a partir das representações dos professores do curso de engenharia agrícola da UEG

Abstract

The significant growth of the undergraduate teaching in our country has making educational system worry about the teaching formation of those teachers who work in this educational level. Based in the necessity of looking at carefully to teaching education, this work tried to identify how teachers who do not have a specific formation to teaching realize their own formation and qualification to work at colleges (ensino superior). We have comprehended and known about the representations they have about themselves as teachers and how they act in during the teaching action. For that, it was necessary to get some elements which make part of their professionalism as teacher, their views about the requirement of teaching and action in the classroom. We chose and selected the graduation course of Agricultural Engineering at Goiás State University (UEG) as the research context, where thirty teachers have answered a questionnaire, and five teachers were interviewed and gave us permission to observe their classes for a semester. The reason why we have chosen this course is that the most part of teachers do not have a specific, didactic and pedagogic education. The theory which we use as a basis for this study was: data analisys avaliable in bibliography about the university pedagogy and teaching education presented by foreign researchers such as Tardif, Nóvoa, Shulman, Ariza and Toscano and Brazilian researchers such as Masetto, Cunha, Morosini, Veiga, Vasconcelos, Pimenta, Pimenta e Anastasiou e Libâneo. In the research we used the qualitative method and a case study. In the first moment the subjects of this research answered a questionnaire in which we could obtain data about personal identification, academic and educational formation and their professional life. In a second moment, we selected five teachers who were interviewed and whose classes we observed. We still used as instruments for this research the Project politician. Pedagogic of the institution and the lesson plans of those teachers. The analisys showed that a) based on the their representations, the academic teachers do not consider the pedagogic formation as a basis of the professional identity and their action in the classroom. They consider most their knowledge in their specific area; b) the pedagogic formation, in the studied context, is based on their own professional experience and in their own practice through a right and wrong process; c) there is a favorable motivation to teacher occupation. The conclusions point to the necessity of having an academic and teaching formation based in the theorical and scientific dimension in a specific area in which those teachers act and the necessity of techniques and practice involving a professional and specific preparation to teaching, in which we must include a didactic knowledge education (Cf. Libâneo, 1994, p.27)