Docência universitária e artesania em tempos de inovação.

Abstract

At a time when the higher education institutions of the Consórcio das Universidades Comunitárias Gaúchas - COMUNG share and point out to new pedagogical perspectives in the face of uncertainties and fluctuations in the educational moment and mobilized by this sentiment, they are taking important steps to rethink new ideas having the words ‘innovation’ as the engine of the proposed changes, it is opportune to problematize university teaching in this context. Thus, with this thesis, from the research question “How do university professors immersed in innovation processes in teaching manifest their professional craftsmanship?”, I seek to problematize university teaching, understood as craftsmanship, before the imperative of contemporary innovation. For this, approximately eighteen months, he mapped the way in which university professors, immersed in innovation processes, write and talk about their doing, seeking to understand the movements, learnings and dilemmas that permeate the making and training of university professors in la contemporaneity, but mainly, seeking to identify manifestations of the teaching craftsmanship in these speeches and writings. The empirical field of this study was the Post-Graduation Course in University Teaching in Contemporary (EAD modality) which brought together about 150 professors from new community universities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul who are experimenting with innovative processes that exist a direct impact on teaching practice. The theoretical contribution was organized around three axes: understanding the context of the need to rethink the university and, consequently, teaching; the imperative of innovation in contemporaneity; and the craftsmanship. The reflections produced from this investigation were organized around six axles: to become a contemporary university professor; the development of craft skills; the commitment to teaching; material awareness; cooperation and pride in your work. In the course of the investigation, it was possible to identify, recognize and value the artisanal way in which the group of participating teachers practiced their profession, despite all the difficulties that the current educational context presents, conceiving university teaching as a craftsmanship, the sea, without losing the desires of a job well done for the simple fact of doing well.