O curso de Licenciatura em Pedagogia da UFRPE/UAG: reflexões a partir da análise dos discentes

Abstract

Teacher education has been guaranteeing space in educational debates, mainly due to its almost direct link to the quality of Basic Education. In this event are included the reflections on the curricular proposals of the Pedagogy courses, the role of the pedagogue and the curricular formation required for the profession. Our research is supported by Souza (2009), who contributes to the debate by questioning the concept of formation that undergraduate courses assume, and especially the role of the University as a locus for teacher education. Assuming Souza's constructs (2009) as our theoretical framework, our research proposes as problematic to answer the following question: What meanings are attributed to the UFRPE / UAG Degree in Pedagogy by its students? Thus, in order to respond to the instigations, we present as a general objective the analysis of how the UAG / UFRPE Degree in Pedagogy is understood by its students; and as specific objectives: a) identify the profile of the student of Pedagogy Degree at UFRPE / UAG; and b) know the meanings attributed to the UAG / UFRPE Pedagogy Degree course by their students. The research was developed at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, at the Garanhuns Academic Unit. As a data collection instrument we used the Student Identification Questionnaire and the Free Word Association Technique, applied to 137 undergraduates of the referred course. We use Content Analysis to guide our interpretation of data (BARDIN, 2011). Our findings point to the female predominance among undergraduates, with an age range of 20-29 years, residents of surrounding cities to Garanhuns / PE and dependent on some type of student support (such as scholarships). The Free Word Association Technique made it possible to approximate the meanings attributed by the students to the course. Our analysis linked these meanings to four Semantic Fields, namely: I - Senses attributed to formation; II - Reflections of educational problems; III - Teacher training curriculum; IV - Challenges of the University in teacher education.