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Education of university professors in the context of university-school interaction

This article presents results of research on education of university professors who work in Undergraduate Physics, Biology and Mathematics Education Courses, starting from their participation in a project of continuing education for public school teachers. The theoretical framework, supported by Pierre Bourdieu and Paulo Freire, allowed us to construct instruments in order to characterize the education process as a collective construction of a formative endeavor. For this purpose, it was necessary to consider both the interaction among university teachers and the interaction among them and the high school teachers. The research results show that the involvement of university teachers in the project enabled them to produce knowledge in a domain that they are not normally called to do it, in the practice of everyday university life, namely, the teaching.

Teacher education; Science education; University-School


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