Teachers’ knowledges and practices: contributions to a reflection on autonomy and success in higher education

Authors

  • Maria José Sá Universidade de Aveiro
  • Elisabete Ferreira Universidade do Porto
  • Katia Maria da Cruz Ramos Universidade do Porto, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1981-2582.2015.2.16498

Keywords:

Academic success. Autonomous educational relationship. Higher education.

Abstract

This paper aims at highlighting the process of teaching and learning in higher education (HE) as a privileged space for the (re)affirmation of academic autonomy and construction of professional autonomy. To do so, it brings together a reflection on factors affecting students (in)success in HE and two formative experiences – one focusing on the relationship established in teaching supervision as a possible trigger of dialogues with autonomous knowledge, and another one focusing on the construction of the teaching professionalism of students in an initial training process, within the scope of the challenge of shared management of the pedagogical work organization. In this context, by indicating the possibilities of active participation in classroom management and training intervention alternatives, the main propose of the study is to contribute to the reflection on teacher knowledge and practice within the complexity entailed in the reflection on academic success of the student in training.

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Author Biographies

Maria José Sá, Universidade de Aveiro

Doutoranda em Ciências Sociais na Universidade de Aveiro e investigadora do Centro de Investigação de Políticas do Ensino Superior (CIPES).

Elisabete Ferreira, Universidade do Porto

Doutora em Ciências da Educação - Administração Educacional, Professora da Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação (FPCE) da Universidade do Porto (U.Porto) e investigadora do Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE) da U.Porto.

Katia Maria da Cruz Ramos, Universidade do Porto, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (PPGE) e do Departamento de Métodos e Técnicas de Ensino (DMTE) da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), desenvolve investigação no campo da Formação de Professores e da Pedagogia Universitária, membro efetivo do Núcleo de Formação Continuada Didático-Pedagógica dos Professores da UFPE (NUFOPE), e membro colaborador do Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas (CIIE) da Universidade do Porto (U.Porto).

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Published

2015-11-10

How to Cite

Sá, M. J., Ferreira, E., & Ramos, K. M. da C. (2015). Teachers’ knowledges and practices: contributions to a reflection on autonomy and success in higher education. Educação, 38(2), 280–288. https://doi.org/10.15448/1981-2582.2015.2.16498