Coerência e contradição: o conteúdo e a forma no exercício da docência de didática nos cursos de licenciatura

Abstract

The study had the objective to understand how teachers in the disciplines of General Didactics and Specific Didactics in undergraduate courses constituted their trajectories and how these affect their pedagogical practice and the initial training of their students. The methodology was built on qualitative perspective, of ethnographic inspiration, with direct observation of classroom situations and semi-structures interviews with six teachers, three of Didactics – Organization of Pedagogical Work and three of Specific Didactics that act in Pedagogy and Biology courses. It also involved 12 students of these courses, which attended these disciplines during the investigation period. The interviews with teachers were focused on understanding how they build their professionalism, from the analysis of their professional careers. The observations in the classroom sought to understand the articulation of teachers’ class and the relations that they established with students. The interviews with students were structured to allow the understating of how teachers in the disciplines of General and Specific Didactics articulated the knowledge necessary for the practice of teaching, and their impact on the initial training of these students. The thesis maintains that university teaching is made of ruptures, continuities and contradictions between discourse and practice, and most teachers expressed concern about the relation between the form and content of the disciplines they ministered. The pedagogical field, crossed by different values and beliefs, involves the teaching that deals with challenges that reconfigure and resignify it. It is a phenomenon of collective and complex nature, lived socially, distant of simplifications. They was used as theoretical statemente to this study the contribuitions in Cunha (1989, 1998), Pimenta (1998), Leite (1999), Anastasiou (1998), Balzan (1998), Masetto (1998,2003), Morosini (2003), Pimenta e Anastasiou (2002), Veiga (1994), Castanho e Veiga (2001),Zabalza (2004), Isaia e Bolzan (2009), entre outros.