Movimentos da professoralidade: a tessitura da docência universitária

Abstract

This study is centered on the comprehension upon the actions that pervade in the making of teaching, focusing on the building of the university professorality. This process is about the creation actions that the teacher makes throughout his teaching pathway, configuring ways of thinking, acting and feeling as a teacher. Under this perspective, the guiding problem for the study was established: what actions are made in the building of the university teaching? From this question, the following objectives emerge: identifying the repercussion of the formative experiences in the making of the university teaching; understanding the relationships between the pieces of knowledge from the specific field and the pedagogical field in the production of teaching from this level of education. The methodological approach adopted for the development of the study was the qualitative narrative approach of sociocultural nature. The collaborator subjects of the study are eight professors that act in the Federal University of Santa Maria who, through semi structured interviews, were invited to narrate and [re]visit their formative pathways as professors within the higher education. The theoretical matrix for the theoretical support of the investigation is the historical and cultural theory, in particular the activity theory (VYGOTSKI, 2003, 2005, 2007; LEONTIEV, 1984, 1988, 1989), in alliance to the studies on the day-to-day (HELLER, 1991, 1982b, 2008) and feelings (HELLER, 1982a) whose origin is linked to the historical materialism. Furthermore, the studies that compose the university pedagogy were referred to as represented in Isaia and Bolzan (2004, 2005), Bolzan and Isaia (2006), Cunha (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010), Pimenta and Anastasiou (2002) Mizukami (2006), as well as studies related to teaching learning and teaching professional developing such as Ramalho (et al 2004) Imbernon (2006), Novoa (1991,1992), Tardif (2006, 2007), Gauthier (et al 2006) among others. The research has allowed us to highlight the university professorality emerging from the confluence of a production characterized by the teaching in the immediacy, which amplifies in direction to a process of personification of teaching, revealing the making of being teacher as a rising process of construction, which holds in the configuration and [re]configuration of the activity of becoming a teacher the expression of the becoming a teacher. There are the private and the individual movements as dynamics of this process, which express ruptures and continuities as reflexive dimensions of the teaching building, manifesting the dialectic overcoming as a sign of the constituting movements of the professorality. Under this perspective, the private and the individual movements evidence the integrations established between the teaching day-to-day and the non-day-to-day sphere, allowing us to highlight professorality as a process that is updated and configured in the interchange of the relations that produce the practical and reflexive actions of the teacher. As present impact, there are the ruptures with the prizing appreciations upon being a teacher in which the idea of a learning that is developed within the private and single ambit of becoming a teacher is preponderant.