Profession Teacher Is Related to Lifelong (Re)Learning

Jordana Wruck Timm,Claus Dieter Stobäus,Juan José Mouriño Mosquera

doi:10.4236/ce.2016.712180

Abstract

Increasingly, the teaching profession is relevant to all areas, as the growing social and economic devaluation that it has suffered. The aim here is to aggrandize the first part, reinforcing the importance of the profession and attenuating the feelings sprouted those who operate in this professional field. Therefore, the objective is to analyze qualitatively the speech of a teacher interviewed, after being for years in this profession, comparing quantitatively with spontaneous responses from people interested in doing the course of Pedagogy and join in education. This confrontation will occur, in order to verify the meaning and significance of the teaching work in their lives. The data analysis was carried out in accordance with Discursive Textual Analysis. It is worth noting that all the text moves through the bias of Health Psychology and Positive Psychology. It was concluded that people interested in joining, currently in the Faculty of Education, according to the respondents here, was afraid as the choice of profession because of mishaps found in it and we were constantly reported by the press as a whole. Apart from that, most of these people think the option of joining the area through a family member (teaching or have taught) or to recognize the importance of it. The interviewed more career time, recognizes the difficulties, however, the positives reported it to prevail, giving the immensity of this work means and gives meaning in your life, just as it does in the lives of other teaching professionals.

Highlights

For the realization of the doctoral thesis of Timm, oriented by Stobäus and Mosquera, we proposed to interview teachers who teach in the Graduate Stricto Sensu, in different stages of occupational life cycle, as said Huberman (2013)
On the six categories that emerged from the analysis of the responses on the pilot interview, it is pertinent to point out that were made from the open question “What is the meaning and significance of the teaching work in your life?”
In the first emerging category entitled particular acting area, we realized that the interviewee brings this very strong in his report, due to be teaching in the area of Physical Education, which can differs from how to teach, learn, live and relate to, compared to other areas of expertise

Summary

Introduction

For the realization of the doctoral thesis of Timm, oriented by Stobäus and Mosquera, we proposed to interview teachers who teach in the Graduate Stricto Sensu, in different stages of occupational life cycle, as said Huberman (2013). This cycle, for these authors, is divided into five stages: entry in career; stabilization phase; phase of diversification, put in question; phase of serenity, emotional detachment and conservatism; and phase of divestiture. Prior to the official interviews, we proposed to conduct two pilots’ interviews, to check the conduction and analysis thereof These pilots are generating articles and the possibility of choosing the methodological procedure and analysis to be adopted for the final thesis. In the interviews about occupational life, at the end of the interview we made the following question: “What is the meaning and significance of the teaching work in your life?” It is from this question that the discussion developed for the writing of this text

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