Social Representations of Physical Education undergraduates about Supervised Curricular Internship
Social representations; Teacher training; Supervised internship; physical education.
The Supervised Curricular Internship (ECS) is a compulsory curricular component and considered the central axis of the teacher training courses. Designed as an initiation to teaching, it allows the graduate to have an anticipated knowledge of the future field of professional activity, presenting indispensable aspects to the construction of the teacher being able to understand the complexity of the institutional practices and the pedagogical actions that involve teaching. Recurring situations in the reality of the stage as a mockery, fictitious intervention plans, an attitude of indifference during the internship orientation compromise the process of teacher training and instigate a search for its possible motivations. In view of this problem, the objective of this research will be to analyze the social representations built by the students of the degree in Physical Education regarding the Supervised Curricular Internship, aiming to unveil relationships between the representations and the student attitudes towards the stage, concentrating on the students with negative representations and attitudes. The Theory of Social Representations will be used as theoretical and methodological support, focusing on Central Core Theory. The research model will be the mixed method under the quantitative and qualitative perspectives observing complementarity sequentially. The research will be carried out in two phases: extensive, in which data from a questionnaire will be analyzed aiming at the socio-demographic characterization of the subjects and the analysis of the words evoked by the trainees on the term inductor "Supervised Stage". In this stage the research will be carried out with 100 (one hundred) students of the undergraduate course in Physical Education of a Federal Institution of Higher Education, who are performing Supervised Curricular Internship in a school environment, chosen by criterion of intentionality. The qualitative step (intensive) will be performed through the interpretation the justifications for the evocations pointed out as pejorative to ECS, as well as interviews with a sample of three to five subjects, selected in the extensive phase for their discourse, attitudes and evocations regarding the Stage Supervised Curriculum. The data collected from the Free Speech Evoked Technique (TELP) will be submitted to a prototypical analysis with the aid of the Evoc 2005 softwear. The open questionnaire questions and semi-structured interview data will be interpreted through the technique of content analysis.
Keywords: Social representations; Teacher training; Supervised internship; physical education.