Ser formador do curso de pedagogia PARFOR : implicações para a profissionalidade docente.

Abstract

This research is part of the teacher-training discussions and focuses on a group of teacher-trainers who teach in an undergraduate Parfor-Pedagogy Program, part of the National Plan for the Training of Basic Education Teachers (Parfor) at a Confessional University in Baixada Santista (SP). This program was created by the Ministry of Education (MEC) as an emergency plan, and was implemented by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Staff (CAPES), with the purpose of achieving the goals of the National Plan for the Training of Basic Education Teachers, by offering scholarships for teachers who teach in public schools. We chose to investigate the implications of teaching in the Parfor-Pedagogy program for teacher professionalism of teacher-trainers. The authors who served as a solid foundation for this study were: Freire (2009), Gatti, Barretto & André (2011), Imbernón (2011), Mizukami (2005-2006), Roldão (2005), Tardif (2011), Tardif & Lessard (2005), among others. The approach for the research was of qualitative aspect. For data collection, we created a discussion group, composed of five trainers, and analysis of two accounts published as books, about the training practices developed by two members of the faculty. Data analysis was developed under the perspective of content analysis, proposed by Franco (2012). Data highlights what teacher-trainers do and what they think of the student-teachers as well as the activities that are developed on the training locus. Student-teacher profiles, as regards to the functional situation of the schools where they work and also to the lack of knowledge about cultural heritage and symbolic aspects of language, has required further search for answers concerning the training needs of these student-teachers. This has led teacher-trainers to develop teaching strategies in order to enhance student-teachers learning and also to articulate academic-theoretical knowledge. This practice has shown that teaching in the Parfor Program has encouraged trainers to rebuild their knowledge and their practices. It is highly desirable that the actions and teaching practices that have been developed by these teacher-trainers at Parfor are properly recorded, discussed and shared, so that it can help to improve teachertraining policies.