Professor universitário de Educação Física: discutindo suas características científico - pedagógicas e formativas

Abstract

This research aimed at characterizing and understanding the current professors situation at Higher Education in Physical Education courses specifically teachers formation courses by approaching their participation in Stricto Sensu post-graduation courses as well as their scientific production so that it is possible to comprehend established relations among Physical Education professors formation processes, Physical Education teachers initial formation and Schooling Physical Education itself. This investigation consists of a descriptive case study in a quail-quantitative approach, making use of eleven Physical Education teachers curriculum lattes analysis as a source of information, considering that they work in a private higher education institution in Caxias do Sul city (RS). In order to interpret and analyze data from this investigative process, the content analysis technique was used. Two categories of analysis resulted from this interpretation, that is, continuous formation and scientific production. The results show that the teaching staff considered in this research is composed by 64% masters, 27% who have concluded a specialization course and only 9% with doctorate. Considering that, it can be considered a low level of doctors among Higher Education Institutionsa and this fact influences negatively in the institution scientific production, being that only 77 papers were published, indicating 7 publications by professors. In this way, it is possible to say that there are little research published, what impoverishes the teaching and extension relation. It was also verified that the approximation not only of the professors post-graduation course but also their scientific production about Physical Education in Basic Education is more intense during the post-graduation, representing 89%, but in the knowledge production, however, this rate lows to 67% of the publications and this is due to the phenomenon of scientific plurality and ambiguity of the area, of the work market s big range, what were generating these professional identity conflicts and prejudicing its pedagogical concentration not only in post-graduation courses but also in teacher s formation ones. It is possible to understand that this low scientific production is due to three factors: the little time of this higher education institution performance at the labormarket; the reduced numbers of professors with doctorate in their teaching staff and high number of professors in professional development. The conclusion pointed to reflections and suggestions about these formative gaps that can be developed by new institutional investigations and actions such as: the necessity of this higher education institution in hiring more professors who have concluded their doctorate course to work in the Physical Education course of teachers formation, the adoption of politics with institutional character to motivate and promote these professors scientific production, independently on their levels of study, it is necessary since there are research lines defined and the development of institutional research projects, stricto sensu post-graduation courses implementation. The results and conclusions makes evident the importance of developing researches associated to other teaching functions and related to both realities: Higher Education and Basic Education.