Cursos de formação inicial de professores de química: uma análise das manifestações de professores da Diretoria Regional de Ensino de São Carlos.

Abstract

The purpose of this research work was to analyse and discuss the thematic of the formation of teachers, making references to the contributions of the course of licenciateship in Chemistry for professional learning, throught the survey and analysis of the information showed by acting licensed teachers in Chemistry from the teaching Regional Board of Directors from of São Carlos-SP. For the accomplishment of the research work we started from data collected by means of a frameworked questionnaire in two blocks: one corresponding to a personal data/professional formation (academic) with seventeen questions and another about data from the professional acting formation course with thirty-three questions, the composition of the questionnaire was made most of open questions and some closed ones. The questionnaire was answered by twenty-five acting licensed teachers in Chemistry, on which, we would collect the opinion of those teachers about some aspects of his/her process of formation and professional performance, that is, aspects referring to the curriculum, the evaluation, the didactic/methodological procedures, a new standard formation of (practice-reflexive) teachers, the difficulties and facilities found as a professional, as well as his/her professional performance. In the treatment of the collected data, we proceeded to a qualitative analysis of the answers of the questionnaires through, the description of information obsained from acting licensed teachers in Chemistry, we considered the information with similar meanings, configuring in classes of quantified answers in frequencies and percentages. According to the conclusions , it was clear that new ways must be investigated in the formation of teachers. In spite of acting Chemistry teachers having presented relevant and important aspects, they also pointed out some problems and difficulties of critical form in relation to his/her formation from the licensed teacher in Chemistry. For being a research work with qualitative nature, the conclusions can not be generalized, but they can be used in the understanding of similar situations that could occur in the other contexts.