Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:32:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Angelica - Diss-Final-3.pdf: 654034 bytes, checksum: a26a70ab768732f03f6123034725bd3d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-02-01 / This study has as research object the university and the formation and practice of teacher as a professional of education. It is inserted in the research line University, Teaching and Teachers Formation , and its objective proposes the investigation of the construction process of formation of university teachers, how and where these professionals are formed, a construction that is historical and that occurs and takes place individually and inside collective relationships. This investigation also tries to know challenges and possibilities faced by teachers and education nowadays, more and more questioned at several aspects concerning their role in contemporary society. In this study, by making use of a bibliographical and documental research, and supported by teachers interviews, taken as oral sources adapted as methodological procedure, we tried to know how are constructed teachers life trajectories, which are the influences, models and defiance's there presented. The investigation shows us, throughout the stories of life and teachers routes, that the formation of this professional constitutes a process permanently in construction, individual, unique, but also influenced by different contexts, historical moments and by conditions of personal and professional life as well by professional partners. Contradictions and challengers presented in the university, always larger, faced by these professionals confirm the need of researches that bring reflexive and critical knowledge about the formation and practice of the teacher of superior education. / Este trabalho tem por objeto de pesquisa a educa??o superior, a forma??o e a atua??o do docente, profissional da educa??o. Inserido na linha de pesquisa Universidade, doc?ncia e forma??o de professores , tem por objetivo pesquisar o processo de constru??o da forma??o do docente da educa??o superior, como e onde se formam estes profissionais, uma constru??o que ? hist?rica, acontece e se desenvolve individual e coletivamente. Esta pesquisa busca conhecer tamb?m os desafios e as possibilidades para os docentes e para a educa??o na atualidade, cada vez mais questionados quanto ao seu papel na sociedade contempor?nea. Atrav?s de uma pesquisa bibliogr?fica, documental e da utiliza??o de entrevistas com professores, das fontes orais como procedimento metodol?gico, procuramos conhecer como se constroem as trajet?rias de vida docentes, quais as influ?ncias, os modelos e os desafios. A investiga??o realizada mostra-nos, atrav?s das hist?rias de vida e das trajet?rias docentes, que a forma??o deste profissional ? um processo que est? permanentemente em constru??o, que ele ? ?nico, individual, mas que ? influenciado por diferentes contextos, pelo momento hist?rico, pelas condi??es de vida pessoal e profissional, pelos companheiros de profiss?o. As contradi??es e os desafios presentes na educa??o superior e para os seus profissionais s?o cada vez maiores, confirmando-nos a necessidade de pesquisas que busquem conhecer de forma reflexiva e cr?tica a forma??o e a atua??o do docente da educa??o superior.