Teachers’ senses and skills to practice higher education: a study of 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 theoretica...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Docência do Ensino Superior (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/2115 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rdes/article/view/2115 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Docência. Ensino superior. Representações sociais. Docência Ensino superior Representações sociais Teaching Higher Education Social Representations |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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