A formação de docentes e práticas pedagógicas no contexto da educação tecnológica

Abstract

In this article we discuss the training of teachers for professional and technological education, considering the need for a continuous formation articulated with the Education Sciences. We intend to shift the focus centered on technical training to a perspective centered on pedagogical practices, consonant with a humanist formation. Our objective is to critically reflect on current teacher training courses considering the need for an adequate articulation between the specific technical and pedagogical knowledge . In this sense, we emphasize that the teaching activity is not merely a technical nature, it involves specialist knowledge and general knowledge that is in harmony with the purposes of the 21st century Education and with the profile of the students to be trained. The knowledge society, due to its idiosyncrasies, demands both a new formative profile that contemplates new methodological perspectives, within the field of professional and technological education, and looks for an effective combination between teaching and learning within the scope of this new cultural scenario. Knowledge should not be initiated only in a scientific and technological culture, characterized by a simple transmission of content, instead, it should be integrated to a culture of the humanities, privileging reflective and systemic thinking. Training students in vocational and technological education courses is not only preparing them for the competent exercise of a given profession in this area, it also means providing them with critical thinking about the transformations of the world around them as a presupposition of meaningful learning, to put themselves in the world in a more informed way. Therefore, it is necessary to rethink the traditional model of training of teachers who work at universities . We present in this article, preliminary results of a theoretical study, based on bibliographical research and also on reflections derived from the activities of professor and coordinator of an undergraduation course in technology