Impressões de um grupo de licenciandos em Química da UFRPE sobre a sua formação inicial

Abstract

The present research aimed to analyze the impressions of students of the Chemistry Degree course at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) about their initial training. For this, a qualitative study was carried out with ten undergraduate students in chemistry of this Institution who were in the final periods of the course. The research instrument was a narrative interview in which the exmanents (research questions or questions of interest to the researcher) were thought out and defined. These questions were aimed at guiding the conversation between the interviewee and the interviewer in order to address the themes addressed in the research and thus meet the established objectives. The results show a diversity of impressions about the teaching career, including positive and critical views about initial training. The undergraduates highlight the need for greater integration between theoretical content and practical experiences and point out that the experience of institutional programs related to teaching and supervised internships are essential for this integration. However, the students' criticisms of the disconnection between theory and school reality suggest the need for curricular adaptations and longitudinal studies that accompany their trajectories, aiming to improve training and better prepare future teachers for the challenges of their careers.