Adolescentes escolhem a profissão docente. Por quê?

• Autor(a) principal: Silveira, Fernanda Caline Casemiro
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da Uninove
• Texto Completo: http://bibliotecatede.uninove.br/handle/tede/2161
• topic: adolescência; escolha profissional; docência; pensamento complexo; adolescence; career choice; teaching; complex thought; adolescencia; decisión profesional; docencia; pensamiento complejo; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

This study has as its main topic the adolescents’ choice for teaching, who are enrolled in the first and second semesters of undergraduation bachelor courses and it aims to verify and analyze their motivations and influences to become teachers. According to literature research, this option occurs in a scenario that the election for this profession is decreasing, besides the career social and economic disregard. The theoretical referential is based on Edgar Morin’s Complex Thought, which embodies: three main operating principles, holographic, recursive and dialogical; imaginary complexes, through identification-projection processes and human comprehension. The qualitative approach is applied using open interviews with fifteen students attending Higher Education initial semesters, majoring in: Philosophy, Geography, History and Arts. The interviews were manually and fully transcribed in order to be included in this paper. Four common meanings units emerged from the interviews: Adolescence and career choice process; Identification with the teacher; The school environment and experience and Education as a changing tool. The analyses have indicated that the professional decision occurs within adolescence, nevertheless the leading factors due to this movement differ from the career choice theories. The teachers compose an utmost influence on the interviewees’ choice, which is permeated by the identification-projection-transference processes, they are inspiration figures and examples to be followed in the students’ point of view. The teenagers’ school environment and experience represent a significant role in their aspiration to work in education, although in an antagonist and complementary relation, considering that both positive and negative events compose the group of reasons why the bachelors have chosen the pedagogic career. Mostly, the teaching profession election’s motivation is the youth willingness to turn education into a social and educational change tool, besides affecting their future learners lives as their own educators have done in the past.