Navegando em mares da docência superior: representações de enfermeiros-professores de uma faculdade particular de Feira de Santana – Bahia

Abstract

This present essay has as objective to know how teachers and graduated in Nursing which haven’t graduated or a preparation course to be a teacher in nursing area, see and mean the teaching work in private college education. In this perspective, the guiding issue of our work was elaborated as following: As the nurse-teachers of a private college mean the teaching in higher education and in how do these issues reach their pedagogic practices. The investigation sustained methodologically in the qualitative approach, supported by the Phenomenology field, using the Theory of Social Representations (MOSCOVICI, 2003) and the Analysis of the Context (BARDIN, 2001), supported by the epistemological presupposition of the emergent paradigm (BERHENS, 2003). The Locus of the research was a private College, addressed in Feira de Santana-BA. The subjects investigated were six (6) teachers, nursing graduates who teach in the Higher Education Institution. As instrument of the collect and production data was used the semi-structured interview. To line off our research object and dialogue about High Education Teaching in the private sector, we used as theoretical substantiation authors as: Dias Sobrinho (2009), Pimenta and Anastasiou (2011), Tardif (2007), Cunha (2009), and others. As results reached, after the interpretation of the thematic units, we analyzed that the teaching in High Education was awaken as a second profession, challenging them to use traditional practices of teaching. Moreover, the deponents assumed that the graduation and acting in Nursing have contributed to a more embodied practical. Although, they recognize the on-going educational practice are necessaries to re-elaborate their activities as professors. About the teaching knowledge, the majority of the researched professors pointed the experience knowledge, specific or subject ones while important in the teaching work as the same time they recognize the necessity of keeping a dialogic relationship with the students. On professional identity, the subjects bring the idea of an identity that goes through both professions.