THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DEGREE COURSE THROUGH THE EGRESS’ VIEW: TRAJECTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING TRAINING
The Federal University of ABC (UFABC) has stood out as a university with the face of the 21st century. Graduation, in addition to interdisciplinary bachelor's degrees and, from 2020, interdisciplinary degrees, university entrance courses, has among its specific courses, the Biological Sciences Degree (LCB). Maximum score in the last ENADE, the University and the course are recognized for their educational excellence. The objective of this study was to trace the course of the graduate of the LCB course at UFABC, to identify his performance and professional placement, motivations and opinions on the contributions of the course to his career in order to reinforce or point out difficulties in the professionals who are trained through the institution. From a qualitative methodology, 48 of the 49 graduates from the Biological Sciences Degree course at UFABC were contacted from the first class formed until the year 2018. The documentary analysis raised questions about the initial teacher training courses, with emphasis on the Biological Sciences courses and those with an interdisciplinary proposal such as those at UFABC. From the return of 39 graduates to the online questionnaire, quantitative data were collected. A semi-structured interview was conducted with 8 of these graduates, recorded by audio recording. The questionnaire data were treated statistically, and the transcribed interviews were explored through content analysis. From the data, it was found that 59% of the graduates work with activities related to education (includes teachers seeking professional placement), about 23% have already worked with Education since initial training, but have changed areas and the another 18% of graduates never got to work in the Education area, following shortly after the conclusion of the course for the academic area of BCB. The interviews raised the categories Motivations, Successes, Challenges and Perspectives and, in general, training at UFABC was a determining factor for the performance of a critical, democratic professional, aware of his role in society and interdisciplinary in his way of acting and operate in different educational contexts.