Lembranças da trajetória: memorial descritivo para promoção à classe de Professor Titular

Abstract

In this memorial, presented to the Faculty of Education of the Federal University de Uberlândia as a requirement for the promotion of the Associate Professor Class IV for the Titular Professor Class of the Higher Teaching Career, I narrate the events in my life that led me to a teaching career. O Memorial consists of an introductory text, in which I explain the structure of the text, and three main parts that report my academic and personal trajectory in sections. Each section was designed to represent a period, always listing the main activities developed at that time. In the first part, called Plantar, I present my family structure and the paths I followed until the end of the 1990s, going through the period of graduation, master's and first experiences with teaching and management in private institutions, going through the period of internationalization in Spain. In the second part, called Spoon, I present my trajectory in the academic environment as a teacher in public institutions, moment when research activities were consolidated and when I discovered the strength and the importance of extension. It is also in this part that I report my experiences with educational management in different instances, until the present day, acting as professor of the Journalism course and of the Postgraduate Programs offered from the Faculty of Education at UFU to the post-doctoral internship at the University of Ottawa. The third part is composed of a text reporting the experiences outside the institutional walls, mainly, research networks, participation in researchers and educational and life expectations. It is, therefore, a report of plans for the future, especially with research networks and societies scientific research, here called “hope”. It is also a text with expectations of what I believe is still possible to do, whether at the Federal University of Uberlândia or beyond the walls of that institution. Finally, in the final considerations, I present a reflection on the process of making this memorial and the importance of all this process, followed by an appendix consisting of several summary tables from across the my experience with teaching, research, extension and administration. In the end, they are Quantitative data (numerical and values) of the trajectory are presented in the appendices, followed by the Lattes Curriculum (Annex 1) and other relevant evidence.