Contribuições do curso de pedagogia UFFS/Campus Erechim para atuação docente nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

The expansion of free and compulsory public education and the increase in the training of teachers for Higher Education, provided for in the National Education Guidelines (LDB) – Law No. 9.394/96, brought some obstacles that were translated into goals in the National Education Plan (PNE) and prompted reflection on the training of professionals working in Basic Education. In this regard, when reflecting on teacher training, the research had as its general objective: to analyze the contributions of initial teacher training in the Pedagogy course of the Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Erechim campus, to face the challenges of teaching in the early years of elementary school. A research with a qualitative approach was developed in three main stages: 1) bibliographic research: a) bibliographic review, in which a historical review was made of the constitution of higher education and teacher training in Brazil, analyzing historical and political aspects that contributed to build the current educational framework; b) State of Knowledge – carried out through the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), on the initial formation of teachers in the Pedagogy course to contextualize the work and justify its relevance and originality; 2) documentary research: a comparative document analysis of the two Pedagogical Projects of the Course (PPC) of Pedagogy at UFFS/ Erechim campus, in order to identify changes and to assess the changes between the PPCs; 3) field research: a) questionnaire – which was answered by 50 graduates of the course –, with the purpose of elaborating their teaching profile, investigating their academic trajectory, continuing education and workplace; b) interview with nine teacher who worked in the early years of elementary school, analyzing how the Pedagogy course at UFFS/Erechim campus contributed to face the challenges of teaching in this stage of Basic Education. It was found by the questionnaires, that the majority of the graduates worked in public schools and that they had continued training in post-graduate courses. It was found, through the interviews, that the main contributions of the course were related to the construction of a consistent theoretical framework that enabled the formation of critical sense, social sensitivity and investigative attitude in the teachers. The work with interdisciplinarity and teaching methodologies were identified with weak points of the course. From this, a diagnosis of the course was elaborated as a final product, which was sent to the coordination of the degree in Pedagogy and to the academic coordination of UFFS/Erechim campus, providing subsidies to think about the referred course and contribute to the improvement of the initial teacher training at the University.