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SANTOS, Bettina Steren dos; RODENBUSCH, Camila de Barros  y  ANTUNES, Denise Dalpiaz. Aspectos motivacionais da profissão docente universitária. ETD [online]. 2009, vol.10, n.numeroespecial, pp.294-312. ISSN 1676-2592.

Human motivation is configured as motivational processes, affected by various factors that interfere with their specificity and peculiarities. These motivational processes permeate teacher’s own path, such as selftraining and academic training, which begins with intentions and desires of each teacher, long before completing his/her undergrad courses and professional experiences. Regarding educational practices, it should be understood how motivation is understood by teachers, as it helps triggering students´s intrinsic motives. This article is part of an extensive research work, which is ongoing, conducted by the Research Group Motivational Process in Educational Contexts (PROMOT) at PUCRS. The intention of this study is to find out how Higher Education professors conceive motivation and how it interferes with their teaching practice. It is a qualitative research based in case study in which the speeches of Health area professors were analyzed. The sample was composed of seven professors of a private university in RS, Brazil. To achieve the research objective the Bardin ( 2004) content analysis was used. The Pre categories found were: Conception of Motivation: revealed different understandings of human motivation. Post categories were: Academic Career: it is a long path which requires much commitment and dedication of those who are part of the university world; Life history and self-fulfillment: the experiences from childhood are the foundation of training and serve as a model for the construction of goals; Concern with Personal and Professional Training of Future Generations: Adults, supposedly mature, generally are concerned in helping and being useful in relation to other individuals.

Palabras clave : Motivational Process; University Teaching; Teaching Practice.

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