The Pedagogical Formation and the Knowledge of Teachers in Computering in Teaching Strategies: Integration of Content, Didactic Material and Interdisciplinary or Integrator Project

Abstract

With regard to the improvement of the quality of higher education, we realize that academic dropout, labor market demands, lack of teacher preparation and the National Student Performance Examination (ENADE) point out an important factor that It leads us to review notable quality issues of higher education courses, especially computer and computer courses. However, this article is part of the first results of an ongoing research project. This project initially sought to verify in the pedagogical training of the professors of the computer science course the relationship of knowledge in teaching strategies: content integration, teaching material and interdisciplinary or integrative project. This research was applied in the teaching staff of the graduation course in Computer Science of Brazilian public and private universities. The objective of this first part of the research is to verify how the pedagogical training of teachers is. For this we use three teaching strategies as a reference: integration of disciplinary content, pedagogical material and interdisciplinary projects or integrating projects. Both these strategies and others are important to achieve higher quality and reference education. But this quality of higher education has had a negative impact on the media in recent years when some points are observed: academic evasion, recent graduates with difficulty entering the labor market and the high rate of students who do not reach Good level of knowledge. That knowledge is evaluated in Brazil by the Ministry of Education through the National Student Performance Exam (ENADE). Given this reality and concern in offering a higher education of quality and reference, this work is justified.