Formação docente: a percepção de professores

Abstract

This work aims to analyze how the teacher feels his initial formation, first stage for the development of the educational profession. It is a descriptive-interpretative study of the representations by them manifested in relation to the initial formation. The theoretical basis found on the empiric part of the research referred to social representations and teachers' perception, historical aspects of the educational formation in Brazil, difficulties, paradigms of the initial formation, educational knowledgements to be formed and formation for the competence. The investigation involved thirty five teachers of basic education that act in the fundamental teaching (cycle II) and medium in two state schools of the municipal district of Santo Anastácio, São Paulo state. There was a first contact with the direction of the schools and teachers for the presentation of the research and adhesion to the development. In two meetings of SCPW (Schedule of Collective Pedagogic Work) in each school unit the application of a questionnaire was accomplished. The analysis of the collected data demonstrated that the teachers' perception indicates precarious initial formation for the emphasis given to the theory and the negligence of the practice. The courses of degrees, responsible for the educational formation are structured in the ways of the technical rationality. Formed as technicians, the teachers at the end of their bachelors´ degree, look like without knowledge, abilities and attitudes that conduct to actions that consider the pedagogic complexity act and challenges imposed by the contemporary society to the school and that is marked by a perverse and inhuman globalization imposed by the neoliberal capitalist system. The study shows the need of an initial formation that articulates, dialectically, theory and practice and that promotes activities that conduct to the formation of the teacher's investigator of his own pedagogic practice formation, that allows him the development of a critical conscience on the world and the ransom of the process of the man's humanization, in a perspective of continuous formation, in these times of homogenization and pasteurization of the treaties.