SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ADVISORY TEACHERS AND COLLABORATORS IN SUPERVISED CURRICULAR INTERNSHIP: MEANINGS AND IMPLICATIONS IN TEACHER TRAINING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Social Representations, Supervised Internship, Physical Education.
The supervised curricular internship (ECS) is conceived as an epistemological field of knowledge, conducive to reflection on and based on practice in formal work spaces. Research has highlighted aspects that compromise its effectiveness in training spaces related to universities and schools. The regulations that govern degree courses guarantee the space of the ECS as a curricular component/activity that, through its purpose, integrates two fundamental realities in teacher training: the university and the school. Therefore, the development of the ECS encompasses interinstitutional involvement and engagement of training agents who occupy the academic and school space. These agents, as social and historical beings, pedagogically systematize the ECS based on their conceptions and representations constructed throughout their personal, social, academic and professional trajectory. There is abundant evidence in the literature of the gap between the university and school loci and, consequently, of the teachers responsible for their management: the supervising teachers and the collaborating teachers. Understanding the social representation of these subjects regarding the ECS is fundamental for understanding the way they guide their decisions and actions. This research project seeks to reveal the social representations of guiding teachers and collaborators regarding supervised internships in the field of Physical Education, intending to identify their implications for the pedagogical practices of internship guidance and supervision and, consequently, for the training of future teachers. Quantitative and qualitative research, of a descriptive nature, will be carried out in two phases: the first of an extensive nature, using quantitative procedures and, the second, of an intensive nature, using qualitative procedures. The sample in the extensive phase will be composed of university professors (advisors) from physical education courses at public universities in the state of Rio de Janeiro (IES); as well as basic education teachers (collaborators) working in the supervised internship in Physical Education in partnership with the HEIs investigated. In the intensive, in-depth phase, two guiding teachers will be selected from each HEI investigated and eight collaborating teachers who work in basic education schools in collaboration with the HEIs. The instruments used will be characteristic of each phase of the research. In the extensive phase, open/ended questionnaires will be used to characterize the sociodemographic subjects, as well as to obtain data through the adoption of the free word recall technique. The data will be processed mathematically with the help of EVOC software. In the intensive phase, the focus group technique will be used with the guiding teachers and semi-structured interviews with the collaborating teachers. The data will be processed and analyzed using content analysis techniques.