Percepções da docência: reflexões sobre a didática em um curso de Engenharia Civil da cidade de Uberaba

Abstract

This research had as objective to understand the professional context of the Civil Engineering teachers, from a public University in Uberaba city, state Minas Gerais (MG), and the specific objectives were to analyzes the perceptions of the engineering-teachers about their teaching practices and to verify if they had didactic-pedagogical formation in stricto sensu postgraduate programs. As a way of guiding our research we start from the questions: Who are the engineering-teachers who work in the Civil Engineering course at the researched institution? How does these teachers´formation take place? What are the perceptions of these engineering teachers about their teaching practice? To answer these questions, we use the qualitative approach as methodology. The requirements for the participation of the teachers were: to work in the chosen institution, to be a graduate in Civil Engineering and haven´t taken na education degree. We did a theoretical study, through a literary review, using the following authors: André (2010), Dantas (2011, 2014), Franco (2011, 2012, 2016), Marcelo Garcia (1990, 1991), Libâneo (1994), Masetto (2010, 2013, 2015, 2018), Tardif (2012), and others. We applied a semistructured questionnaire to twelve (12) teachers of the Civil Engineering course, and we also searched at six (6) websites Superior Educational Institutions looking for the objectives and the syllabuses of the stricto sensu courses, to verify if them contemplate the didactics or methodology discipline education. The results was carried out through the content analysis of Bardin (2002) that provided the systematic and objective description of the answers obtained in the questionnaire. The results of the present study indicate that Civil Engineering-teachers didn´t receive didactic-pedagogical formation in stricto sensu postgraduate courses to act as teachers. The interviewed teachers reported the lack of didactic discipline, which contributes to the accomplishment of the teaching process. We emphasize the importance of an effective work in the institucion researched, both in the offer of specialization courses or extension in Higher Education Teaching or Didactics and Teaching Methodology, as well as the inclusion of the didactic discipline in Civil Engineering stricto sensu programs.