THE SUBJECT-PROFESSOR IN TRAINING: A STUDY ON TEACHING IDENTITY AT HIGHER EDUCATION
It is about the presentation of the report for the qualifying exam, whose structure brings a brief introduction about the research, the conditions of production of the collected data, the theoretical and methodological bases that support our analyzes as well as two sections of analysis. Our goal is to investigate how the process of constituting the teaching identity of Higher Education teachers who do not have in their professionalization the Teaching degree or Pedagogy degree occurs. Teaching at this level of education has laws and public policies aimed mainly at the academic training of professionals, where knowledge is privileged to the detriment of pedagogical and didactic notions, not necessarily ensuring training to “be a teacher”. In addition, economic, technological, political and social changes that we have entered in recent decades require a different professional, a teacher who is not concerned with replicating knowledge, but who reflects and learns from his practice, envisioning a student education for society. Still, a study under this prism brings the importance of turning our eyes also to the personal and institutional development of the teacher. Studies like this one about higher education teaching identity are scarce, which justifies our undertaking in such research, which is qualitative, with a narrative approach, based on studies on the subject and identity, teacher training, in particular studies on Higher Education, professionalism and professionalization and teaching knowledge. The theoretical-methodological framework used for the analyzes was the Discourse Analysis (AD). Data collection was carried out with seven professors from a public higher education institution in the state of São Paulo. It was divided into three stages: questionnaires with cases of teaching practice, semi-structured interviews and academic memorials. So far, it was possible to infer that the subject-teacher is in a conflicting process between the traditional and the new, in a continuous search for his “being a teacher”.