O docente no ensino superior: sua história, seu presente e seu futuro

Abstract

The following study has as purpose to investigate the professor, aiming at contextualizing the teaching formation of such professional throughout his university teaching path. For such, professors at Public Teaching Institutions were approached. The main objective was to investigate, through imaginary meaningful knowledge revealed by the professor in his life histories, his history, his present and the perspective in performing his function. This way, the problem was delimited like that: what meanings has the professor gone through along his personal and professional life, to make possible the development of his function? In order to conduct this research the used instrument was a questionnaire, the biographic method and the narrative interview of the life history, through document analysis, oral and written autobiographic testimonials, taking into account that this method enabled to listen to the professors on his professional life through a qualitative approach. This research was based on 4 (four) professors, which worries surrounded the recovering of the teaching and the formation of the professor within the Public Teaching Institutions, as well as the professor formation history, and its narratives, aiming at recognizing in the professors the real dimension of their profession. This way, aware that those are tiny particles of a wider reflection, it was concluded that the valorization of the life paths of adults constituted new researching proposals in the last years all over the world, the singularity that each professor meant to be in his profession, attempting to make possible his work before the demand of the third millennium with globalization, and because of that, the information and communication speed through computer, that the active professors are professionals who like what they do, the university is meant to be an environment for development and challenge.