Desenvolvimento profissional docente de mestrandos em perspectivas do ensino por investigação em um clube de ciências da UFPA

Abstract

In this research, we sought to investigate the Teacher Professional Development (TPD) from a inquiry perspective by Master's professors of the Graduate Program in Education in Sciences and Mathematics (PPGECM) from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) who carried out several researches at the Professor Dr. Cristovam Wanderlei Picanço Diniz Science Club, of UFPA/Campus Castanhal.To do so, we seek to analyze their formation experiences in association with their intermediation with their research objects. Methodologically, from a qualitative approach and participant research characteristics, we sought to answer in which way, from the construction of research from the teaching by investigation perspective, the aspects of protagonism, reflections and interventions for the TPD are verified. The empirical field, characterized by the practice communities were the PPGECM/UFPA and the Professor Dr. Cristovam Wanderlei Picanço Diniz Science Club, having two master professors (PMe1 and PMe2) selected for investigation. In order to build up the information, participant observation, questionnaire, interview and checklist were used. In this context, we explore theoretical contributions on teachers' training and TPD in Vaillant and Marcelo (2012), building a socioepistemic topography, based on Fleck (1994), about teaching by investigation throughout the 20th and 21st centuries in Brazil, based on the Theory of Activity thesis, conceived by Leontiev (2004) and Engeström (2001). From the contents analysis, five categories and thirteen subcategories of analysis emerged, in which we evidenced a TPD with significant learning occurred by Master's teachers' engagement, marked by motivational factors, interventions as investigative subjects and the impediment and parsimony during the research construction process, with reflections and reality intervention, conceiving the PPGECM and the Science Club as investigative practice communities and of self-education, linked with the training process of Doing and Being investigative. The difficulties, needs and future perspectives of PMe1 and PMe2, who sought TPD through mastery, may be qualified in the process of transforming teachers into adaptive specialist instructors, referred to the need for willingness to change their learning, with investigative actions planning, more support to scientific writing and the dissemination of results that come to the fore opportunities to experience, from the inside, the academic experience to be lived in deep and articulated research between teaching by investigation and the professional practices, provoked by the desire to develop with professionalization, professionality and professionalism.