Developing teaching within the academic profession: Possibilities arising from training in pedagogy in higher education

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https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.29446

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Pedagogy, Higher Education, Teachers, Professional Development, Portugal

Abstract

This article presents a study that explores the effects of the pedagogical training of higher education teachers. The challenges faced today by academic staff and teaching within higher education are taken into account, namely those that result either from the expansion and diversification of the student population or changes in curriculum design and pedagogical practices associated with the Bologna Process. Based on the analysis of a set of portfolios produced by 14 Portuguese professors within the framework of a postgraduate degree in pedagogy in higher education, we explore their motivations for training, the relationship they establish with teaching and the echoes of training in the respective exercise of the academic profession, as well as the (re)configuration of their understandings about the purposes and contents of higher education. We conclude by highlighting possible contributions of pedagogical training for valuing teaching academic work and reinforcing teachers’ autonomy, in parallel with the centrality of the respective collective dimensions. These elements, as a whole, open possibilities to consider the effects of pedagogical training in balancing the tension between research and teaching and in assuming the academic profession as a public good.

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Mariana Gaio Alves, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

  • Professora Auxiliar da Unidade de Investigação Educação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
  • Áreas de Investigação: Sociologia da educação; Inserção profissional; Trajectórias escolares e profissionais; Violência na escola.

Teresa Gonçalves, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Teresa Paula Nico Rego Gonçalves awarded her PhD in Education in 2008 at University of Sevilla. She is Assistant Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She was auxiliary researcher in Education at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, post -doctoral fellow at the same university and doctoral fellow at University of Sevilla. She has coordinated and participated in different research projects in education. She is currently teaching at the post-graduation program in Education at the Faculty of Education - UFRJ, where she supervises master and doctoral students. She coordinates GESTE - Research Group on the Work of Education. Her current research interests are Teacher Education, Work of Education, Educational Theory, Training of Researchers in Education.

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2024-06-13

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Alves, M. G., & Gonçalves, T. (2024). Developing teaching within the academic profession: Possibilities arising from training in pedagogy in higher education. Portuguese Journal of Education, 37(1), e24015. https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.29446

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Vol. 37 No. 1 (2024): January - June

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