ADUFU – seção sindical dos docentes da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia: espaço de formação política e de desenvolvimento profissional docente na UFU-MG

Abstract

This research is linked to the Knowledge and Educational Practices Research Line of the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Uberlândia-MG and its object of study is political training and the professional development process of university teachers. of UFU affiliated and non-affiliated to ADUFU - Union Section. The research study problem is: What is the repercussion of the actions of the ADUFU-Union Section of UFU teachers on the political training and professional development of teachers who work in Higher Education? The general objective was to investigate the impact of the actions of ADUFU-Seção Sindical on the political training and professional development of teachers working in Higher Education. The specific objectives consist of identifying the importance that affiliated university professors attribute to ADUFU-Seção Sindical; understand how the actions promoted at ADUFU-Seção Sindical have or not repercussions on the constitution of the professional identity of UFU teachers; analyze whether the actions promoted at ADUFU-Seção Sindical would make up for the lack of institutional policies aimed at the professional development of university professors at UFU. The exploratory and descriptive investigation has a qualitative approach and is based on methodological assumptions that are close to historical-dialectic materialism, based on the principles of praxis, historicity, totality and contradiction. With a view to deepening understanding of the object of study, the investigation included the following research procedures: the state of the issue, semi-structured interviews and document analysis. The research subjects were university professors at UFU, effective and in-service, affiliated and not affiliated with ADUFU–SS. We start from the premise that the participation of teachers in union bodies will be able to boost training advances in the ethical, organizational dimensions, construction of professional identity and the constitution of teachers as political subjects. We announce the union instance as a space for complaints and announcements, as a place to enhance political formation, especially in times of democratic instability, in which the precariousness of teaching work and the advancement of projects that aim to withdraw rights and loss of autonomy are accentuated. of teachers. In view of the above, we highlight that ADUFU can contribute to the creation of a training culture that aims at professional development at UFU, capable of becoming a producer of knowledge in the most varied contexts, in order to provide conditions for the Teachers can rethink and give new meaning to the teaching profession.