A identidade docente de bacharéis da Rede Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia

Abstract

This research aimed to understand how graduates, who have not obtained any specific teaching training in their college education, constitute their professional identities as teachers. We worked specifically with three teachers of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, who work in a campus located in the northeast of Brazil; and we had the following objectives: to investigate their concepts about the profession in order to understand their senses and meanings; how they became teachers, and to understand the life paths that contributed to the formation of their identities as teachers. We did a qualitative study based on the Cultural-Historical Psychology and on the conception of identity developed by Ciampa.The reflective interview, was the data production procedure adopted, focusing on the teaching condition. But before that, a bibliographic study on the Technical Education in Brazil was done, for better understanding of the objective conditions experienced by the interviwers. Data analysis showed that the identity of teachers takes place in a dialectical movement in which its constitution reflects the relationship between the experienced objective conditions, and the social interactions developed over the life cycle of the teachers interviewed, substantiating their individual senses on teaching. The three teachers interwied said that they recognize teaching as the action of transmitting and receiving knowledge at the same time, which makes possible the building of knowledge in a cooperative way with students