Estágio supervisionado: espaço e tempo de formação do pedagogo para a atuação profissional

This investigation is aimed to analyze the relation between theory and practice present in the Pedagogy course’s supervised internship and the meaning assigned to that part of the curriculum developed in the initial training course, by students and pedagogues who now work in primary education in some public and private schools of the city of Juiz de Fora. It seeks possible connections between the lived experiences on the internship and the current pedagogical practice of these professionals. The supervised internship, in this research, is characterized as a field of knowledge and also valuable opportunity for immersion in the professional field favoring the construction of an educational praxis. The educational praxis is understood, in view of Vásquez, as intentional practice, interpretive, creative and transformative in this sense. Besides this author, this research builds on the major theoretical contributions of various researchers such as: Libâneo, Pimenta, Franco, Tardif, Bourdieu, Giddens and others. To achieve the proposed goals and achieve more systematic observations and analysis that enable a new insight into the processes of pedagogue training, mainly related to the supervised internship, was chosen to implement three types of procedures for collecting and analyzing data. The first refers to a documentary analysis through which focuses on the legal basis that maintains the conceptions about the pedagogue and their training. The second set of information used and analyzed refers to secondary data, whose source is a research among various institutions entitled “The Formation, the Work of Teachers who work in Elementary Education and the Systemic Assessment of Schools from Minas Gerais: a comparative study”, coordinated by Calderano (2009) within which a survey was developed containing, among other aspects, issues relating to internship. Resulting from documentary studies and thematic analysis of institutional research was defined the third type of collection procedure and data analysis, conducted ...