Docência universitária: saberes pedagógicos necessários à formação do professor de Ciências Contábeis

Abstract

This research has as main objective to verify if university professors of the Accounting Science course have knowledge about the pedagogical concepts and teaching knowledge. It was acknowledged as object of analysis the opinions of teachers who work in the higher education on bachelor\'s degree of Accounting Science from a Higher Education Institution - IES of Uberlândia / MG. The theme is justified by the importance of bethinking on the practice of teaching in the Accounting Science courses, where teaching skills, most of the time, are kept as secondary against the technical and practical knowledge. The proposed methodology was a qualitative and quantitative study executed using data collected by a research instrument. To do so, it was provided a questionnaire in electronic address compounded of four steps. The first step looked for information on the subjects of the research. The second, consisted of a questionnaire to value the opinions of teachers about: 1) conception of university teaching and 2) teaching knowledge. The third step applied a questionnaire with free and reflective questions on the central topic of the research, and the fourth step was opened for general comments. The questionnaires were tabulated together to extract the data for quantitative and qualitative analysis, which verified reflections in regard to the improvement of university teaching professionals working in the Accounting Science courses. According to the sample of 22% (out of 100%), it was found that it is necessary the pedagogical training for the practice of university teaching, since the curriculum of the Accounting Science course does not explore these issues, and only the professional experience is not enough to work the ample variables of education. The surveyed professors share this need and, even if slowly, it is possible to confirm the change of vision of teachers compared to traditional conceptions of education.