From Teacher’s education course to classroom: the process of learning how to teach at varied times and spaces

Abstract

Teacher education is a challenge that oversteps borders of space and time. In case of the initial education the difficulties of enunciating formal necessities arising from the working field to the possibilities of the courses that educate teachers. In search to contribute to minimize them this investigation aims: to investigate the teachers learning process and to evidence notion of future teachers on their career. A questionnaire of open questions was answered by twenty students of the last term in different major curses at a public university of São Paulo State countryside. The data were analyzed based in six thematic subjects, resulting in significant evidences from which one emphasizes the lack of background related to the specificity of the teaching career as well as to the historic-social context it happens committing future action of teachers and, consequently, the student learning in basic schools. One should thus re-think the teacher formation within a time in which its re-dimension by means of technological means is possible.

Keywords: teacher initial education; major; teaching background and knowledge.