Docência universitária: o cirurgião dentista no curso de Odontologia

Abstract

There are now in Brazil, according to the American Dental Association, 186 colleges of Dentistry, and of these 27 are federal. Front of the regulatory documents requesting the undergraduate courses in dentistry for the profile of egress as a professional with critical, general, reflective and humanist, and aware that the features of forming much depend on the mediation of the teacher, sought in this work to investigate, study and understand the views of teachers on issues related to teaching. The objective was to analyze which pedagogical knowledge that teachers college, with initial training in dentistry and working in undergraduate courses in Dentistry, have practice in front of his higher education in the university teaching classes, interrelationships and teaching methodologies. His holdings were through access to the web page where the term of consent and the research instrument was available for each phase. For construction of the instruments, initially at an exploratory stage, listed the most prevalent categories of teaching practice, according reviewed articles. Subsequently, by observation of teaching in the Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Uberlandia was elected from among the previously listed categories, the most frequently presented. From this selection, we set up the instruments of the next two stages of the research, phases I and II. The first phase was made available to all teachers in Brazil's crowded federal institutions of higher education. Already the second, for teacher to overcrowded federal institutions located in Minas Gerais state with the largest concentration of these institutions. The first research instrument was composed of sentences to be valued by the five-point Likert scale and the second, on questions to open discussions. It was noted that there is recognition of the lack of pedagogical training from their own faculty participants. So shy that has unnerved some who looking training for a teacher performance. The concern with work for the best graduate is formed allowing a more effective involvement in social activities, it appears. A dedication to become a teacher dentist permeates reconstruction of teaching that exists today.