Constituição da Identidade Docente : o papel do Mestrado em Ensino de Ciências da UFRPE

Abstract

In order to envision improvements in the quality of education and to systematize the scientific production in the Northeast in Teaching Science and Mathematics, there is the Project Centre of Education (POE), comprising the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Federal University of Rio Grande North (UFRN) and the State University of Paraiba (UEPB) and their Graduate Program. We are part of this project and hope that the masters of the Post-graduate in Science Teaching (PPGEC) of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) to get out of this program is in congruence with their conceptions with new trends in teaching the sciences, emphasizing that a reflective practitioner / researcher should be able to analyze and evaluate their own practice, improving their practice in order to train more people to think critically and reflectively. In this sense, this study aims to analyze the social representations of the graduates of the Post-Graduate School of Science, University of Pernambuco Federal Rural Teacher in order to understand the factors that contribute to strengthening the identity of the teacher as researcher's own practice. The theoretical reference is based on Social Representation Theory developed by Serge Moscovici, complemented by the Central Nucleus Theory of Jean-Claude Abric. We brought a discussion on the construction of teacher identity (PEPPER and ANASTASIO, 2005; NÓVOA, 1995; GRANDIN, 2008; MORAES, 2000). We also brought a discussion of Reflective/Researcher Teacher (Schon, 1992; BASTOS and NARDI, 2008; and SOUZA LOPES, 2007; PEPPER and ANASTASIO, 2005). The methodology is based on a plural methodological approach. We used three methodological tools to collect data. The first is a Socio-Cultural Survey, the second is the Summoning Hierarchical Test and the third is the classification of dissertations, built on the CEDOC descriptors. The research led to the identification and analysis of social representations of 11 subjects who entered the program in 2002 PPGEC to those who defended their dissertations in 2009. For data analysis, we seek help of the software Evov2000, document analysis and content and process of categorization of words. The results revealed that the social representation of teachers, even showing traces of an ambiguous conception of meaning, rooted in the words dedication and responsibility, bringing the idea that words are more rooted to the history and culture teaching, indicating that the representation is a more traditional shows, more strongly, that their social representations, mostly, are permeated by a socio-constructive tendency, rooted in the words as Educator and Mediator. The word assessment, although it was a term that appeared as a fringe element, showed that the subjects are beyond the reductionist view of the evaluation process with an emphasis on understanding and awareness, revealing that his views are in congruence with the new trends of Teaching Science.