THE SUBJECT-PROFESSOR IN TRAINING: A STUDY ON TEACHING IDENTITY AT HIGHER EDUCATION
The objective of this work is to understand aspects of the process of constitution of the Higer Education teaching identity of the professors who do not have initial training in Licentiate or Pedagogy courses in their professionalization. The theoretical bases of this research are grounded in studies on the subject and identity (Hall, 2000, 2006; Dubar, 1997, 2009; Candau, 2014), teacher training, in particular studies on Higher Education, (Nóvoa, 2000, 2017; Pimenta; Anastasiou, 2005; Soares; Cunha, 2010), professionality and professionalization (Roldão, 2005, 2008), teaching knowledge (Tardif, 2002) and the teacher as a critical-reflective professional (Schön, 1983; Zeichner; Liston, 2014). Data collection was carried out with a group of seven professors from a federal public Higher Education institution in the state of São Paulo. The study corpus is composed of discursive sequences extracted from three types of data collected: questionnaires with cases of teaching practice, academic memorials and semi-structured interviews, with Discourse Analysis (DA) being the theoretical-methodological device used for the analyses. Through these, it was possible to deduce some constitutive aspects of the subjects of this research, among which: the influence of family members and teachers, mainly the advisors, in the choices for and in the profession; the constant search for acceptance within the career, permeated by the haunting myth of the “know-it-all” teacher; the lack of institutional support at the beginning of a career as a mark of solitary work; and the redefinition of the meanings of the evaluative processes as a driving force for reflections and changes as a teacher.