O Instituto Universitário de Educação de Cabo Verde e os desafios da universitarização para a formação de professores
Resumo
The Cape Verdean education since independence has undergone several changes in
order to increase access to education and provide teachers with specific training.
Reforms and educational policies in Cape Verde in turn have demanded increasingly
higher teacher qualifications and highlighted their role in improving the quality of
education. In this sense, in 2010, the Decree Legislative n.2 / 2010, increased teacher
training for basic education in superior level. Therefore, the research sought to
understand the implications of universitarization process in the formation of Cape
Verdean teachers of basic education (mostly with a single mid-level training), after
attending an undergraduate complement course at University Institute Education. As a
research methodology was adopted a qualitative approach of the analytical-descriptive
and interpretative-critical, based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews with the
studentes and the coordinators. Their research shows the emphasis of technical
rationality; in teacher training; the discontinuity of educational policies regarding the
training of teachers and consequently in education; the notion of competence in the
training of teachers related the demands of the labor market and a flexible professional.
On the other hand, we found that teacher training is a continuous process, composed of
various elements in addition to formal courses; It is not as easy demarcation of
functions of initial and continuing education, and the course played a dual purpose as an
initial training course, with continued training function. In addition, the University
Institute of Education, although it does not represent the full motion universitarization,
presents elements that show that this phenomenon is in full development.