Learning in practice

the basic school on the formation process of licentiate degrees in Social Sciences from the experience at UFC

Abstract

In this article, we aim to discuss the teaching formation in licentiate degrees in Social Sciences, focusing on the degree program offered to undergraduates at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). Anchored to the experience and the perception of former students from this program, and such information shared via questionnaires and interviews, we question the symbolic hierarchy related to the teacher/student dichotomy and we highlight the ties that bind universities and schools, considering these ties as the main compound of the teaching formation. Based on the dialogue between Anthropology and Education, we also reflect upon the teaching practice and its situation in the learning process. Furthermore, we draw attention to the experience which the undergraduate students acquire in the Institutional Teaching Initiation Scholarship Program (PIBID), once it encourages the immersion of these students in the basic school environment since the first years of their undergraduate formation, surpassing the subjects related to teacher training in the late semesters. We conclude that the approach of the undergraduate student to the school environment evidences the inseparability of researching and teaching, since experiencing the school environment – its actors, dynamics, social contacts – suggests simultaneously the experiment of it as a means of practice and its transformation into an object of sociological and anthropological reflection.