Pedagogical training in the social representations of teacher training students

Abstract

This article analyzes the social representations of pedagogical training of future teachers. The study was conducted with students of undergraduate programs at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife (Pernambuco State). We conducted two focus groups, one with students of human sciences and the other one with students of hard and health sciences. The group discussions were interpreted using content analysis. The results revealed social representations of pedagogical training focused on teaching and methodological issues. However, future teachers are aware of the context of political struggles for the search for professional development that lie ahead of them and show that they recognize their future students as subjects, as actors in the teaching-learning process. We stress the need to build more effective channels of communication between programs in order to articulate the specifi c and the pedagogical elements, which are so much advocated and yet so distant in the training process.

Keywords: social representations, pedagogical training, teacher training programs.