Teachers’ senses and skills to practice higher education

a study of social representations

Authors

  • Mônica Patrícia da Silva Sales Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8626-2102
  • Laêda Bezerra Machado Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2237-5864.2016.2115

Keywords:

Teaching, Higher Education, Social Representations

Abstract

This article analyzes the social representations of teaching in higher education shared by students at this level. We assume that the scenario of changes and expansion of higher education interferes in building social representations and involves in the process of professionalization. The theoretical and methodological framework adopted in the inquiry was Moscovici’s Theory of Social Representations. The qualitative research had, as empirical field, a private higher education institution. The subjects, 21 teacher education students from different majors, answered to a semi-structured interview, and the data were treated with the support of the content analysis technique, by Bardin (2010). Higher education teaching was represented as a profession that requires specific knowledge and skills, set up as an activity that demands commitment, responsibility and ethics. The findings of this research suggest the need for investments in teacher training and in the development of pedagogical knowledge and skills required for teaching.

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Author Biographies

Mônica Patrícia da Silva Sales, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, Brasil.

Doutoranda em Educação pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), mestre em Educação, especialista em Gestão da Escola e Coordenação Pedagógica e graduada em Pedagogia. Professora da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Caruaru atuando nos cursos de licenciatura em Pedagogia, Letras, História e Filosofia.

Laêda Bezerra Machado, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, Brasil.

Doutora em Educação, professora associada, vinculada ao Departamento de Administração Escolar e Planejamento Educacional e ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Núcleo de Formação de Professores e Prática Pedagógica da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.

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Published

2016-05-23

How to Cite

SALES, M. P. da S.; MACHADO, L. B. Teachers’ senses and skills to practice higher education: a study of social representations. Revista Docência do Ensino Superior, Belo Horizonte, v. 6, n. 1, p. 211–234, 2016. DOI: 10.35699/2237-5864.2016.2115. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rdes/article/view/2115. Acesso em: 23 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2016)

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