ABSTRACT
In the Brazilian educational policy, the bachelor’s degree is an academic degree that not only means the completion of a formal course of study, but above all a performative act that transforms automatically the graduate into a qualified professional to act as a teacher of certain discipline in basic education. In this paper, we discuss if a bachelor’s degree in Letters means that all the basic conditions necessary for the initial vocational training of the Portuguese language teacher were met. The conceptual theoretical framework that justified the analysis and discussion of training practices was presented by critical exposition of the main perspectives of teacher education that influence the debate in the academic field. The evaluation of the performative character of the bachelor´s degree was through triangulation of three different areas: educational legislation, educational objectives in basic education and university education. Our analysis shows that the performativity of the bachelor´s degree in Letters is not accompanied by an effective professionalization.
Keywords:
Teacher training; Bachelor´s Degree in Letters; Teacher professionalization
