A identidade profissional dos professores do Curso de Licenciatura em Educação Física da Universidade Federal do Pará

Abstract

The present study describes the understanding that the university teacher attaches to his/her professional identity and to the identity that the Physical Education course aims to beuild in its students, and was developed with 10 teachers at the College of Physical Education, Castanhal Campus of Pará Federal University. The central thesis is that the area of Physical Education, as it does not have an object of study of its own that sustains a professional identity, is in an epistemological crisis, slithering in pedagogical practices of teachers that tend to reproduce contents learned in their initial academic courses and from dialogues established with theoretical-methodological conceptions that do not match with the Pedagogical Project of the Course. It is a qualitative research, with phenomenological approach, meant to answer the following questions: What professional identity(s) do College Teachers assume in the Castanhal/Pará Physical Education Course? What professional identity(s) does the Castanhal/Pará Physical Education Course forge in students? Empirical data were produced by means of a questionnaire and a structured interview, based on the “Técnica de Elaboração e Análise de Unidades de Significado” (Development Technic and Units of Meaning Analysis) (MOREIRA; SIMÕES; PORTO, 2005), which resulted in the units of meaning. The empirical data is supported by the discussion on the professional identity by Dubar (1997, 1998, 2005, 2009), Sergio (1995, 1999, 2003, 2008) and Bento (2004, 2006, 2012). The study revealed the difficulties of teachers who work in the Physical Education College establishing the professional identity of the area, due to the absence of such discussions, ever since their graduation courses and in their professional lives. We point out to the need to broaden the debate on these issues that evidence the gap between the Pedagogical Project of the Course and the teachers‟ practice in classroom. We conclude that the collerge‟f teachers do not establish this consensus between what the PPC proposes and what the curriculum explains, not defining the identity of the future teachers that they intend to place in the job market.