Utterances about the supervised internship and the professional development of undergraduates students in physics

Abstract

This text is a part of a research project that aimed to present and discuss formative, contextual and sociocultural aspects of the professional development of physical teachers in practice and in training. This text discusses the question: what do future teachers say about the initial training processes? The empirical work was carried out with groups of undergraduate students in Physics from a public university in the interior of the State of São Paulo, from 2017 to 2019. The students (both undergraduate and graduate) were asked to respond to questionnaires designed to explore their perception of the teaching profession, the physics undergraduate course, and the teacher training program. To discuss the data, the dialogic principle of Bakhtin and his Circle was used, based on the understanding of the utterance. The discussion indicated that students advance in the initial development of the future profession in a satisfactory way during the degree training, based on dialogic processes presented in the utterances.