O processo de formação pedagógica de docentes supervisores de estágio curricular no curso de Fisioterapia da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS

Abstract

The pedagogical education of university teachers supervising pre-service internship in the School of Physiotherapy at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (RS) (UFSM) is our object of study. The research investigated the pedagogical education of such teachers developed within the experience of supervising their students' pre-service internship at the School of Physiotherapy at UFSM. The study was grounded on the theoretical assumptions of qualitative approaches for educational research and, therefore, data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews to thirteen internship supervising faculty of the School of Physiotherapy. Data analysis followed the technique of content analysis as proposed by Bardin (2004), with the aid of NVivo8 software. The analytical categories simultaneously considered have been both the authors studied and the outline of the data collected. Thus, three of those analytical categories have been constituted: a) the educational profile professional activities, b) self-education, c) teaching-learning opportunities for teachers. We conclude that the educational and professional profile of such physiotherapy university teachers, as well as their teaching experience is based on their clinical experiences as a teacher. We realize that, in spite of their lack of formal pedagogical education, such teachers working as internship supervisors, construe elaborate ways of thinking and acting that supports them educationally, thereby giving them authority over their professional activity of supervising clinical internship activities.