A racionalidade pedagógica da ação dos formadores de professores: um estudo sobre a epistemologia da prática docente nos Cursos de Licenciatura da Universidade Federal do Piauí.

Abstract

The present Thesis is a result of an inquiry that has as object study the pedagogical rationality of the educators of professors of a public university. The objective was to identify the reasons where they base their actions, that is, the matrix of convictions regarding the school, the education, the students and the teaching which consolidate or identify a set of specific characteristics of their educational praxis. We are inserted, in this way, in the recent theoretical scope, called epistemology of the docent practice or the docent knowledge, whose purpose is to disclose the nature of the docent knowledge, and to understand how they are integrated concretely in the activities of the work, as well as the role they play in the process of work and professional identity. The approach is discursive; it deliberates the association of knowledge to the speeches and acts for which the professors are able to present reasons. The study had a qualitative approach of ethno-methodological character, for being characteristic of a deriving rationality of reflexive descriptions produced by the members of a community. The subjects of the study were the coordinators of the License Courses of a public university, located north-eastern of Brazil, in the city of Teresina-PI. The used instruments were the questionnaire and the half-structuralized interview whose analysis was carried through the help of the NUDI*ST. The research shows that the educator professor, in the perspective of the coordinators of the License courses, have a pedagogical rationality which confers an autonomy and control to direct educative practical in an ethical perspective. Being therefore, characterized as reflexive subject, epistemic, ethical and transformative. This rationality is configured for a new epistemology of the practical which has the reflection and the inquiry as motor of the learning of the work, shaped in canons of the practical-reflexive rationality with emancipated contours. The results could be used for the reflection on epistemology of the docent practice in superior education, collaborating with the magnifying of the own field of knowledge. Also it can serve to legitimize a pedagogical rationality of a specific context of formation of future professors, conferring validity and collaborating for the professionalism of the professors. In the same way, it increases the debate on the role of the University as an enterprising of an education based on a critic-emancipated pedagogical rationality.