Os sentidos sobre o professor e sua formação em 15 anos de Zetetiké: 1993 - 2007

This research presents a study on mathematics teacher education, examining the bibliographic production in 15 years of the journal Zetetiké (1993-2007), totalizing 140 papers. From these, 49 were classified as ‘teacher formation’, thus constituting the corpus of the investigation. The research focused on three units of recording and analysis: (i) problems of research; (ii) the meanings of ‘being a teacher’ and their ‘duties’; and (iii) the meanings of ‘teacher’s education’. For the processes of categorization we use Textual Analysis, which allowed us to observe some trends. Regarding the problems of research we found that the research actions involve a range from: to report, disclose, describe, identify up to study, discuss, understand, evaluate. With reference to ‘being teacher’ and its ‘duties’ in the whole period of this study it were pointed problems related to the mathematical content and to the pedagogical project of the school unit, with 30 papers giving prescriptions for the teachers actions in its educational context. With regard to the meanings on teacher education, the most frequent references concern: the functions of teacher formation; what is expected of the teacher during and after the education processes; and the emphasis on the importance of initial formation for mathematics teacher’s education.

Entre o sistema e o mundo da vida: possibilidades de ação comunicativa na trajetória formativa de professores de Ciências

This study aimed at both identifying possibilities of communicative action that occur in the formative trajectory of Science teachers, and therefore collaborate in the discussion on the rationality approach that supports teacher education. Therefore, we hope to contribute for the construction of a formative model that encourages human emancipation. For this purpose, we draw concepts from Communicative Action Theory proposed by Jürgen Habermas. Data were obtained by half-structuralized interviews. Although strategic actions predominate among those used by teachers during their education period, we observed some tension focus could be identified, better recognized and built up in order to enlarge possibilities of increasing communicative actions in teacher education. We identified political and epistemological factors as obstacles for these possibilities to materialize.

História e Filosofia da Biologia como ferramenta no ensino de evolução na formação inicial de professores de Biologia

By establishing a relationship among several sections of Biology, the theory of the evolution enables a more systemized and less fragmented education of this science. However, students seem to have difficulties of understanding the concept of biological evolution, by virtue of misunderstanding conceptual and historical data present in textbooks, among other causes. One of these mentioned distortions is the shock between Lamarck and Darwin’s ideas. We aimed, in this work, to investigate the understanding of Biology’s students in pre-service teachers education concerning the Lamarck and Darwin’s theories at different moments of the Evolution discipline. For this, some steps had been followed: 1) Verification of the previous conceptions; 2) Elaboration of a pedagogical material, containing diverse historical texts of primary and secondary sources; 3) Debates in two didactic modules, using the pedagogical material elaborated; 4) Analysis of the conceptions constructed by the students, from the didactic intervention. The results obtained show the preconceptions of the students interviewed, concerning the Lamarck and Darwin’s theories, resemble the explanations presented in textbooks and the insertion of historical texts in the Evolution lessons can be an interesting strategy to construction of knowledge of this theme

Interpretando reflexões de futuros professores de Física sobre sua prática profissional durante a formação inicial: a busca pela construção da autonomia docente

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A reestruturação do projeto pedagógico de um curso de licenciatura em física de uma universidade pública: contribuições de licenciandos ao processo

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Trajetórias Formativas Docentes: buscando aproximações na bibliografia sobre formação de professores

This paper is a theoretical review where we present teachers’ formative trajectories, according to concepts and significations from teachers' education literature, bibliography references to the UNESP Science Education Research Group. We summarize, in an overview table, different typologies associated to teachers' formative and professional development, trying to establish relationships among them. This study is aimed at to rethink these trajectories, in order to provide subsidies for future investigation in this research line.

Saberes docentes mobilizados por futuros professores de Física em processos interativos discursivos

This research deals with teachers’ education, discussing elements related to the teachers’ knowledge and discursive interaction. Teaching knowledge can be mobilized in different situations and spaces; however, here, we considered them in the classroom environment and the interactive context among teacher-students and students-students. We analyzed the discursive interactions in a 23 future high school physics teachers sample, observed during the development of activities of supervised teaching, in an undergraduate teachers’ initial education program, in one of the São Paulo State universities, in Brazil. The main research question was: which teachers’ knowledge is mobilized by future high physics teachers during the interactive discursive context aiming the construction of scientific knowledge by students? Data showed that in the communicative interaction process in the classroom the student-teachers mobilized teaching knowledge related to the content and to its pedagogy.

Física Moderna e Contemporânea no ensino médio e a formação de professores: desencontros com a ação comunicativa e a ação dialógica emancipatórias

Taking into consideration various argumentation perspectives, the introduction of Modern and Contemporary Physics at High School level has been defended by various researchers. In the present qualitative nature research, we heard and interpreted ten High School physics teachers’ discourses, aiming to analyze how their initial education, regarding to Modern and Contemporary Physics, was based in a rationality which matches with the communicative and the dialogical actions. Teachers of our sample were individually interviewed and, at that time, they had finished their initial undergraduate program at least five years before. Teachers’ discourses interpretation was supported by some French school discourse analysis’ concepts, Jürgen Habermas’ communicative action, Freire’s dialogical action, as well as teachers’ education research critical referential. The discourses interpretations evidenced that these teachers’ education, with respect to Modern and Contemporary Physics, was mainly based in technical-instrumental rationality basis. This perspective did not help teachers’ autonomy construction in order to work these subjects in their classes, mainly in a perspective coherent with the teachers’ emancipation, producing reflexes in classroom physics teaching. The study evidenciates the necessity of future teachers’ professors revise theirs teaching practice, as well studying other curricular structures, regarding to Modern and Contemporary Physics teaching.

Demandas de professores de física em exercício no Ensino Médio: subsídios para um processo de reestruturação de um curso de licenciatura

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Mercadorização da educação: elementos que circunscrevem a formação inicial de professores

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Ensino da história e cultura afro-brasileira por meio do atletismo: contribuições de um curso de extensão à distância para professores de educação física

Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento Humano e Tecnologias - IBRC

La enseñanza de las Ciencias Sociales en los profesorados de educación primaria de la provincia de Buenos Aires : La Geografía, gran ausente : Análisis de situación y aporte superador

Alejandro Kaufman (2008) señala que grandes transformaciones se están produciendo desde una perspectiva histórico - cultural en la relación que se establece entre la educación y la sociedad. Y que muchas de las tensiones entre ambas son el producto de lo que denomina "novedades" culturales. Sostiene que la educación se ha sustentado en una cierta previsibilidad y que, en cuanto que la modernidad representa progreso, el cual estaría asociado a la desaparición o transformación de muchas de esas certidumbres, la escuela estaría sufriendo ciertas modificaciones que involucran los propios cimientos de la institución escolar. La formación de los futuros maestros en el área de Ciencias Sociales debe ser ajustada a los requerimientos de esta nueva sociedad. El abordaje de la Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales debe considerar las nuevas aproximaciones epistemológicas y temáticas relevantes en las propuestas pedagógicas. Es indispensable que, así como existen contenidos de Geografía en los planes de estudio de los profesorados y profusas indicaciones para su tratamiento en los diseños curriculares de Primero y Segundo ciclo, se verifique el desarrollo de los mismos desde una mirada crítica que permita tanto a docentes como alumnos un compromiso con el mundo en el que la escuela está inserta

La enseñanza de las Ciencias Sociales en los profesorados de educación primaria de la provincia de Buenos Aires : La Geografía, gran ausente : Análisis de situación y aporte superador

Alejandro Kaufman (2008) señala que grandes transformaciones se están produciendo desde una perspectiva histórico - cultural en la relación que se establece entre la educación y la sociedad. Y que muchas de las tensiones entre ambas son el producto de lo que denomina "novedades" culturales. Sostiene que la educación se ha sustentado en una cierta previsibilidad y que, en cuanto que la modernidad representa progreso, el cual estaría asociado a la desaparición o transformación de muchas de esas certidumbres, la escuela estaría sufriendo ciertas modificaciones que involucran los propios cimientos de la institución escolar. La formación de los futuros maestros en el área de Ciencias Sociales debe ser ajustada a los requerimientos de esta nueva sociedad. El abordaje de la Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales debe considerar las nuevas aproximaciones epistemológicas y temáticas relevantes en las propuestas pedagógicas. Es indispensable que, así como existen contenidos de Geografía en los planes de estudio de los profesorados y profusas indicaciones para su tratamiento en los diseños curriculares de Primero y Segundo ciclo, se verifique el desarrollo de los mismos desde una mirada crítica que permita tanto a docentes como alumnos un compromiso con el mundo en el que la escuela está inserta

La enseñanza de las Ciencias Sociales en los profesorados de educación primaria de la provincia de Buenos Aires : La Geografía, gran ausente : Análisis de situación y aporte superador

Alejandro Kaufman (2008) señala que grandes transformaciones se están produciendo desde una perspectiva histórico - cultural en la relación que se establece entre la educación y la sociedad. Y que muchas de las tensiones entre ambas son el producto de lo que denomina "novedades" culturales. Sostiene que la educación se ha sustentado en una cierta previsibilidad y que, en cuanto que la modernidad representa progreso, el cual estaría asociado a la desaparición o transformación de muchas de esas certidumbres, la escuela estaría sufriendo ciertas modificaciones que involucran los propios cimientos de la institución escolar. La formación de los futuros maestros en el área de Ciencias Sociales debe ser ajustada a los requerimientos de esta nueva sociedad. El abordaje de la Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales debe considerar las nuevas aproximaciones epistemológicas y temáticas relevantes en las propuestas pedagógicas. Es indispensable que, así como existen contenidos de Geografía en los planes de estudio de los profesorados y profusas indicaciones para su tratamiento en los diseños curriculares de Primero y Segundo ciclo, se verifique el desarrollo de los mismos desde una mirada crítica que permita tanto a docentes como alumnos un compromiso con el mundo en el que la escuela está inserta