Docência universitária: elementos norteadores da prática pedagógica no curso de Jornalismo

Abstract

Studying Education system, emphasizing the University Teaching sector has meant finding out ways and bringing up discussions about emerging realities that need to be investigated in Brazilian higher education. Taking part of the search line Knowledge and Educational Practices, this work has addressed the issue of university teaching as a profession in journalism courses for public universities (federal and state), including its development, its practices and its composition compared to the pedagogical elements that guide such practices. The argument was that this professional is able to understand the importance of working fundamental issues involving university teaching as a profession, understanding and prioritizing their meanings faced to their teaching practice, not only in theory, but in everyday IHE- Institutions of Higher Education. Thus, general goals has been presented such as, \"studying, analyzing and identifying how much importance the teachers, working in journalism courses - with specific qualifications in Journalism - relate to categories: conceptions of university teaching, training and teaching knowledge. And It has also aimed to understand the elements that guide their teaching. \" Investigating university teaching-focused on faculty journalist has become a challenge due to the scarcity of the literature found about the subject, emphasizing theoretical such as Berger (1998), Meditisch (1999), Parzianello (2004), Costa (2008), Ramadan (2011) . To discuss the guiding elements of the pedagogical practice of academics, as theoretical basis, work of Masetto (1985, 2003, 2012), Mizukami (1986), Pepper and Anastasiou (2002), Zabalza (2004) , Tardif (2010), Melo (2012), among others has been used. This was an exploratory study with analytical qualitative and quantitative approaches, using a survey instrument that involved closed questions (Likert scale with five points) to five open questions (using Content Analysis proposed by Bardin). The research was performed by the Internet with 184 teachers, journalists from 49 public institutions (state and federal) that offer the course in journalism in the country. In summary, the results have shown that , even though, there is still a deficient professional pedagogical training, the teachers interviewed knew about and are adept at teaching trends interactionist Education, showing, however, remnants of traditional concepts and practices. But they seem to be open to accepting challenges, to new perspectives to their teaching practices. Even so, a strong tendency is visible to the teaching of theoretical knowledge and scientific area. About the pedagogical elements, the concern of teachers of Journalism with the teaching and learning process has prevailed at first, then, on a lesser extent, the relationship between teachers and students, and finally, learning strategies. This denotes that a little knowledge about teaching methods, but at the same time, they assume to need a greater understanding of these strategies. In the teaching and learning process, as well as the relationship between teacher and student disparities in responses have been found, prevailing by a small difference in the traditional interactionist approaches, showing that teachers teach based on progressive pedagogical trends, but the old structures haven t been abandoned.