Educação Superior: um estudo sobre a ação docente dos (as) professores (as) do Centro de Educação da Universidade Federal da Paraíba a partir de suas representações sociais

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Brito Filho, Galdino Toscano de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Educação; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação Superior no Brasil; Representações Sociais; Formação Pedagógica; Docência; Pesquisa; Higher Eclucation in Brazil; Social Representations; Pedagogical Formation; Teaching; Research; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/11687

The present thesis has higher education as a central theme_ It is a study on the professors' action (performance) at the Education Center at Federal University of Paraiba, from their social representations viewpoint. It is a research developed at that Center and has the aim to analyse the professors' social representations on the importance of pedagogical formation for their teaching practice in higher education. A reflecting thinking was. made on the importance and the need for didatic-peciagogical formation, research and knowledge production as major conditions for a good performance of the professor in his/her daily classwork. By means of a qualitative research, and from analysis and discussion of the data gathered through questionnaires applied to 18 professors, one has confirmed the importance of creation a new knowledge acquirements in their formative processes. It was also found the type of perception the target-population members possess about themselves as teachers, and an emphasis was given to the relevant degree of pedagogical formations and knowledge in all teaching fields of higher education.