O estágio curricular em Letras da UFMA e a profissionalização docente

Abstract

Analysis of UFMA's curricular training of Portuguese Language and Portuguese and Brazilian Litterature developed at the University School of Application (COLUN). We seek to understand how this curriculum component can contribute to the formation of professional educators. The research was constructed from discussions within the Research Group School Curriculum, Training and Docent Work of UFMA's Masters in Education Program with the main goal of analyzing the curricular training of Portuguese Language and Portuguese and Brazilian Litterature developed at the University School of Application (COLUN) as an expression of the articulation of curricular knowledge and the Sciences of Education in the construction of docent professionalization. As a qualitative research, case study and single case study were the paths chosen to seek answers to our concerns, because we emphasize the training of graduation courses and among them UFMA's Portuguese Language and Portuguese and Brazilian Litterature. In order to achieve success in our research, we did a depth reading of various authors who could endorse our research as well as documents relating to the study object. In addition to the bibliographical and documental research, semi-structured interviews with the subjects involved in the research were conducted. The data were analyzed in view of the authors who the study. The results indicated that the apprentices have difficulties to understand how curricular knowledge should be linked with the Science of Education, even though they realize the value of such knowledge. In the answers given by the subjects in the interviews, we came to find the understanding that they have on the role of the curricular training at their professionalization and how the knowledge they acquire articulate with the curricular training to the enable them to carry out teaching. We feel the need to seek concrete solutions to try to improve the relationship between the knowledge acquired in along the graduation and the curricular training, in order develop a more efficient performance at educational activities in accordance with school context.