Formação docente universitária: um estudo sobre as práticas pedagógicas adotadas no curso de Ciências Contábeis da Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Abstract

The objective of this work was to explain the knowledge and knowledge related to teaching practices and induce teachers to carry out a self-analysis about the methodologies adopted in the classroom. For the accomplishment of this study, the research with descriptive typology was used, it is thus classified because it aims to analyze the pedagogical practices adopted by the professors of the accounting science course at UFPB - Campus I. The population of this research was the active faculty of the Department of Finance and Accounting at the Federal University of Paraíba Campus I, which comprises a universe of 51 (fifty-one) teachers, with 9 (nine) of these teachers being dismissed due to specializations, training, among others not specified. Due to the difficult access to professors in the department, it was not possible to apply the study to all, of the 42 (forty-two) active and frequent teachers at the higher education institution, 31 (thirty-one) valid questionnaires were collected for the proposed analyzes by the survey, which represents 71% of the sample population. In view of what was obtained, the result shows that there are attitudes and practices that teachers expressed the desire that they could change, from characteristics in their didactics to factors external to their practices, among the most mentioned changes within the research in question is the approximation from the academy to the practice of the profession, and the introduction of active methodologies that can instigate students to go deeper into the subjects and thus expand the exchange of knowledge.