Abstract

This paper analyzes the teaching knowledge used by professors of Natural Sciences and Mathematics distance education degree undergraduate programs at Federal Institutes (FI) of Education, Science and Technology. The method of investigation, phenomenologically, was structured in three phases. In the first step, there was the identification, among all the Institutes in Brazil, among those that offer the Natural Sciences and Mathematics in the distance education mode. The second step involved the analysis and institutional framework of the Institutes. And in the last stage, through the ideographic and nomothetic analyses, there was the identification of elements to enlighten the teaching knowledge in the context of the degree courses at FI. It was considered that the teaching knowledge coming from the teaching profession is a result of an initial and consciously continued formation, which is also ethical and critical and which is guided by trajectories that continuously reflect upon the process of teaching formation, upon the work space and upon the desired world for the professor and for others.

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