Dilemas e desafios na formação docente e na prática pedagógica: um estudo de caso do egresso do curso de pedagogia da UNEAL

Abstract

The process of teacher training aims to prepare the professional for the exercise of the teaching job in the various levels of teaching, either in the basic school or in the high school. Therefore, this works investigates the dilemmas, challenges and perspectives which shows the north to the teacher training process as well as the graduates pedagogical practice from the Programa Especial para Graduação de Professores (PGP), Pedagogy course, held by Universidade Estadual de Alagoas (UNEAL), whose objective is to graduate the in-service teachers from various cities in Alagoas, considering the impacts that cause changes in the context of the basic education, in which the practice of these in-service teachers develops, as well as the impacts in the society of Alagoas. This work also discusses on the set of political issues on the teacher training, through a historical study and some approaches, from the Normal Schools, the first ones in the business of teacher training, until the basic principles which support this teacher training in the contemporary. Therefore, sets the profile of the graduate, bringing some reflections and analysis at the action of this graduate teacher, considering his teaching job from the beginning of his profession, from the beginning of the program and after the program, which are three different moments. It also remarks the graduate student as the subject of the investigation. This way, the type of research is the qualitative one, whose approach is a case study. This work highlights that the instrument used in this research was an open questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The results show that the graduate s pedagogical practice is centred in theoretical approaches which come from literatures presented during the terms of the program and that it implies innovations and the changes of paradigms before the diversity of actions which were learned by the graduate students.