Identidades em travessia: representações de estudantes de letras sobre ser professor de língua portuguesa

Abstract

This research discusses the identities of teachers of students in Arts Degree, in order to understand what it is to teach Portuguese to their own student teacher in training. In this perspective, this thesis had the following research question: What representations about being a teacher of Portuguese Language emerge in the speech of students of Arts and UEFS compete to build their teaching identities? This is a qualitative research based on the emerging paradigm of science (SOUSA SANTOS, 2004), in dialogue with some principles of social representations theory (Arruda, 2011). The locus was the State University of Feira de Santana / UEFS collaborators and subjects were a total of six students from the Bachelor of Arts Vernacular. To form the corpus of this study, interviews were conducted, and the use of memorials training, portfolios and document analysis of the pedagogical project of the course in question. The discursive clippings were analyzed from the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Discourse Analysis of French Line (ORLANDI, 2008), in dialogue with cultural studies (Hall, 2006), discussions in the field of Teacher Education (CORACINI, 2007; TARDIF, 2012) and studies (Auto) Biographical (NÓVOA, 1992; PASSEGI, 2008). As results, we can see that the subject discourses demarcated the border between the porosity and not wanting to be a teacher, unveiling identification contradictory movements in relation to teaching. We also found that subjects represent the teaching of Portuguese as teaching grammar rules, constituting an identity marked by absence: the lack of grammar during coursework. However, conflicts arise as this image of Portuguese Language is relativized by the knowledge of linguistics. In addition, students have highlighted the need for a pedagogical practice different from his elementary school teachers and middle beyond the teaching of grammar rules, thus constituting identities in crossing. Regarding teacher training, students showed the importance of didactic and pedagogical disciplines, emphasizing, on the other hand, the need to include more subjects in the curriculum of this nature, since, according to them, the course emphasizes the training of the researcher, the time that marginalizes knowledge and practices related to the teaching profession, creating therefore a silencing of teaching.