Contributions and limitations of volunteer educational traineeship for the formation of management course teachers

This paper presents a reflection about teachers’ formation in the Management Graduation Course, at the State University of Central West (Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste) in Parana State. It is known that education is influenced by a number of changes that are taking place, demanding from the university teacher, the development or improvement on new techniques, besides didactics and pedagogical skills. In this regard, the aim of the present study is to analyze the contributions and limitations of Volunteer Educational Traineeship (VET) for teacher formation in higher education in the management graduation course. The chosen research method was the single case study, a descriptive research, with its emphasis on qualitative research; the data collection was conducted through document search and individual interviews with former trainees from the VET program. Results showed that the program contributes to the deepening of knowledge and application of the contents, allowing an overview of the learning and of the teaching experience in the classroom; however, VET limitations are closely related to the lack of reflection on that educational practice and to the lack of the pedagogical conception about the educator role. It is concluded that the VET, in spite of being a program that contributed to the technical development of management graduates, it still has limitations focused on pedagogical and didactic formation.

Key words:
Volunteer educational traineeship; Teacher formation; Pedagogical practices