Percepções de professores de Biologia sobre a relação entre formação acadêmica e prática docente

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to analyze the perceptions of professors who teach biology about the relationship between their academic training and their teaching practice, as well as to collect data on the experience of professors of biological sciences as a source of learning, to analyze which moments and which aspects were relevant in the training process of biological sciences teachers and understand the relevance of past influences during the training process for the realization and transformation of teaching practice in the classroom. Therefore, being a research with a qualitative approach, with the use of narrative interviews for the production and analysis of data. These interviews were carried out with three teachers of basic education in biology, using the criterion of different career times, as a time frame in the construction and updating of teaching practice configured the initial training received. In this sense, the perceptions of the three teachers coincided in several aspects, with regard to using a reflective practice, and that teachers' knowledge is adaptive and transformative, that is, teachers are constantly adapting and transforming their professional practice based on new experiences and learning.