Abstract

GENTIL, Heloisa Salles  and  MILHOMEM, André Luiz Borges. Licenciatura em Computação e Profissionalidade Docente. Educ. Teoria Prática [online]. 2013, vol.23, n.42, pp.143-160. ISSN 1981-8106.

The objective of this project is analyse related issues to the profissionalization and teaching professionality in which refers to Degree in Computing. This study was conducted from the analysis of some curricular matrices elements in courses of Degree in Computing in development at UNEMAT, in Cáceres and Colider, of legislation items concerning, and the context of these courses and of the current discussions about the professional computing teacher. The standards that guide this formation and curricular proposals present contradictions: the course is a graduation, but the definition of the professional profile is not restricted to teaching; the graduates will be teacher of Basic Education, but there's not this field of action or discipline provided in the parameters that guide the teaching organization, unless in highschool, in whose PCNs are provided knowledges, competences and abilities in the Computers area. The professional formation proposals that were analysed, both the Guidelines for Teacher Training and the curriculum of the Brazilian Computer Society, showed theyself oriented by “flexible" professionals demanded by the contemporary society, they have to be able to act in more of a working field. It makes difficult the constitution of the teaching professionalism and the function of initial formation courses in the task of contributing for the profissionalization of the teacher profession.

Keywords : Teacher Training; Degree in Computing; Teaching Professionality.

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