Abstract

SILVA, Maria da Conceição Valença da; AGUIAR, Maria da Conceição Carrilho de  and  MONTEIRO, Ivanilde Alves. Docent's professional identity: interfaces of a process on (re)construction. Perspectiva [online]. 2014, vol.32, n.2, pp.735-758. ISSN 2175-795X.  https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2014v32n2p735.

The process of (re)construction of the docent's professional identity emerges as an important theme which the studies' target involves the constitution of the being teacher. According with that, this investigation aims to think over the process of (re)construction of the docent's professional identity in order to support a comprehension of the aspects there involved. To do it, we searched some contributions from studies that approach this theme, in particular those focused on that constitution on the context of the college education. This work, grounded on the qualitative research approach, was categorized on the follows sections: Concepts of Identity and Professional Identity, which aims to support the thinking conceived during the study; and the Docent's Professional Identity: exigencies and circumstantial challenges, highlighting that process on the college education. We emphasize, on the (in)conclude considerations, that the identity is not the foundation of the homogeneity of a group, but the result of that same process of identity and distinction whereby a group searches to build its cohesion and to delimit its position in relation with other groups. The process of (re)construction of the docent's professional identity is complex and is constituted on different spaces and moments, through different trajectories, being individual and collective, on a permanent (re)invention of personal and professional relationships culturally shared.

Keywords : Professional Identity; Teacher Training; College Education.

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