Licenciatura em matemática e a preparação para a docência: o que dizem os licenciandos

Abstract

Teaching and professional development are processes that occur throughout the life of the teacher. The initial training in undergraduate courses forms the basis of a formal and systematized process of teaching and the teaching profession, and is an important period of (re) construction and consolidation of practices and conceptions around being a teacher.In this way, the present research has as object of study the conceptions of the math graduates on teaching and on their preparation for teaching. The main objective of this study was to analyze the conceptions of the undergraduate students in Mathematics about teaching and their preparation for teaching.We seek to discuss the concepts and principles of teacher education, teaching and the contributions of studies on teacher knowledge for initial training. In order to base analyzes on power relations and hierarchies between disciplines within the university field, we rely on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field and cultural capital.The research is part of the qualitative approach and the data were collected through questionnaires (N = 39) and semi-structured interviews (N = 8) with graduates of the fourth year of the degree course in Mathematics belonging to two state public universities of Paraná. As a methodological procedure we also performed the documentary analysis of the Pedagogical Project of the Mathematics Course of the researched universities. For data organization and analysis we adopted Content Analysis (BARDIN, 2011) and Cluster Analysis. Our results point out that the professional choice by the Mathematics graduates involve subjective questions such as affinity for the area, willingness to be a teacher and teaching as a second option and that the training process experienced in the degree affects this process of professional choice. The licensees investigated also emphasized the lack of specific contents for the teaching in the Degree in Mathematics.