Profissão docente: o que pensam licenciados em Biologia da UFRB antes e após suas vivências no estágio curricular

Abstract

The present work, titled "Teaching profession: what they think graduates in Biology of UFRB before and after their experiences in the Curricular Internship", had the main objective to investigate the conceptions of the undergraduate students in Biology of UFRB on the teaching profession, taking as a reference the moments before and after their experiences in the Curricular Stage. And as specific objectives identify what motivated the students to enter the course of Biology Degree of UFRB; to perceive the initial conceptions of the students of the course of Degree in Biology of the UFRB regarding the teaching profession; to understand the students' conceptions of the Licentiate in Biology course at UFRB regarding the teaching profession, after the experiences of the curricular stages. The study was characterized as a qualitative research and was developed through the interpretation of the conceptions expressed by the students who participated in the data collection process. The work was developed at the Federal University of the Recôncavo of Bahia in the headquarters campus, located in the city of Cruz das Almas. The subjects of the research were students, students and graduates, of the course of Degree in Biology of said University. A questionnaire was used to collect data. In the analysis of the data it was possible to perceive that the experiences in the curricular stages give the graduates a different look at the teaching profession, revealing that there were significant changes in the conceptions about the teaching profession among the graduates when compared to the students. The students presented a vision still quite influenced by their experiences as students of the basic school. On the other hand, the students presented a perception that includes aspects related to the professional performance in relation to the reality of the basic schools, among them, in greater representativity, those related to the devaluation and the working conditions of the teacher. In this sense, the results indicate that the internships play a very important role in the students' conception of the teaching profession, which in some cases is the decisive point for the continuation or withdrawal of the career, since they give the graduates a more realistic about their professional performance, thus being one of the moments of great importance for the process of initial teacher training for which teacher trainers must be attentive.