THE MEANINGS OF THE PROFESSOR OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON THE STUDIES OF POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS IN EDUCATIONAL AREA

Abstract

The text is part of a doctoral study and it addresses issues related to the study structure in Post-Graduation in Education mediated by the significations produced by the higher education teacher about his livings with the constitutive actions of the present study. The objective is to understand the structure of such a study and the particularities of the academic relations that the higher teacher develops with it. As theoretical and methodological basis, the contributions of the Historical-Cultural Psychology, most importantly, to clarify concepts such as study, activity and living. The data was produced through three higher education teachers’ collaboration in memorial interviews and the analytical process happened with the narrative’s organization in thematic units and apprehension of analysis categories for an analytical overview mediation. In the test of significations produced by the higher education teacher about the actions taken in the study developed in Post-Graduation in Education it was found that the main actions which were constituted in livings were represented by the disciplines, readings, events participations, study groups, relation with other pairs and scientific production. The particularities of such actions were represented by the teachers’ significations produced on the study, and its relations with immediate purposes of each action. Thus, these particularities had in common the purpose of the researcher’s training and, also, to the teachers, the educational training.