Teachers’ senses and skills to practice higher education: a study of social representations

• Autor(a) principal: Sales, Mônica Patrícia da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Machado, Laêda Bezerra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Docência do Ensino Superior (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rdes/article/view/2115
• topic: Docência. Ensino superior. Representações sociais.; Docência; Ensino superior; Representações sociais; Teaching; Higher Education; Social Representations

This article analyzes the social representations of teaching in higher education shared by students at this level. We assume that the scenario of changes and expansion of higher education interferes in building social representations and involves in the process of professionalization. The theoretical and methodological framework adopted in the inquiry was Moscovici’s Theory of Social Representations. The qualitative research had, as empirical field, a private higher education institution. The subjects, 21 teacher education students from different majors, answered to a semi-structured interview, and the data were treated with the support of the content analysis technique, by Bardin (2010). Higher education teaching was represented as a profession that requires specific knowledge and skills, set up as an activity that demands commitment, responsibility and ethics. The findings of this research suggest the need for investments in teacher training and in the development of pedagogical knowledge and skills required for teaching.