A reflection upon the formation of new faculty of higher education in Brazil - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v29i2.908

Abstract

The last few years have been marked by a huge expansion in higher education in Brazil. The need for new professionals to act as faculty at this level of education makes it very important that topics such as the psychology of learning and teaching methodology be included in the traditional curriculum of future professors. To that effect, the professor must act in a critical and conscientious manner, showing the student the need to value previous knowledge and the verbalization of new mental constructions within an interactive socio-constructivist perspective. The main objectives of this work are to ponder the formation of new professors and to contribute to a broader discussion of this important issue in regards to the methodologies employed and their psychopedagogical implications.