The choices for teaching physics. A case study of students from São Paulo institutions at UFABC, IFSP and USP
Few students take the physics teacher course at the public university and are effectively pursuing a career as a physics teacher, while many others drop out of this course or the profession. As this has been happening, research shows that it is concerned with understanding how personal life, school, the university of physics graduates corroborate the process of choosing to be or not to be in the physics teacher course. With this, this research seeks to understand how students of the physics professor course in São Paulo city and other cities in the region, from three different institutions - USP, IFSP and UFABC - understand their process of choosing their respective course, once it can be products of your history and your family. In such a way, the interpretation that is made to understand the trajectory of these students mobilizes the concepts to Pierre Bourdieu's theory, such as cultural capital, class strategy and overinvestment. With the semi-structured interviews, the speeches of the nine students of the physics teacher course are analyzed by Content Analysis (BARDIN, 2001) and comparative analysis. Therefore, this research resulted in three umbrella categories - science, teaching and university - and subcategories that indicate some dimensions that influence the choice of the physics teacher course. It is observed that, for each subject researched, there are different ways of making relationships between categories and subcategories. But, in general, the interest of the subjects researched by science occurs in the interaction with school subjects; the interest in teaching comes from being involved in teaching practices; and the interest in the public university is given by the search for social ascension. Other perceived conclusions are that female gender researched people are interested in astronomy before they are interested in physics; and that for any university, at least one researched has difficulty with mathematics.