O valor político da práxis docente

Abstract

The Political Value of the Teaching Praxis is the main theme of this study, that sought to analyze the day to day activities of the Pedagogy Course of the State University Vale do Acaraú - UVA, trying to understand, in a critical and dialectical form, the technicist, critical-reproductivist and critical-dialectical tendencies, as practised by the teachers. The idea is to use such analyses to point out to some specific points of reference mostly as a contribution to the very administrative and pedagogical restructuring process the Course is currently going through. Some parameters needed be explicit for the perception of the political dimension in the daily teaching practice, and therefore I formulated a theoretical argument taclding the theme through a global view from the teaching process as well as from the social, political, economic and cultural environment to which it aims to reach, tuming dialectical the different moments and elements of the teaching-Iearning process. The importance of achieving a certain leveI of politicization in the office of teaching is pointed out as a fundamental condition for education to serve the less affiuent classes, which need most a good quality schooling as a subsidy in their struggle to turn their rights as citizens into reality. Before sueh considerations, I utilized as a research methodology the active observation, considering like categories 01' analysis the theoretical formation, the critical dialectical conscience, the theoretical practical relation and technical competence. The results of the present research point out to the difficulties which the Pedagogy Course of UVA has been facing, and they indicate only a moment of transition, needing not much more than a better organization and an ample sharing of efforts from its personnel, so that the recognized competence of its faculty members could rapidly change the Courses profile, making effective a dialectical and critical pedagogical practice, compromised with the citizenry of the people to which it is destined.