Voices grew louder at Unicamp for the continuity of Pibid (Institutional Teaching Initiation Scholarship Program), threatened with extinction in the country due to the political and economic crisis. Managers, teachers, researchers and students, more than 200 people, held a broad debate during the week. This Friday (24), the morning began with the thematic table Teacher Training at Unicamp: Initiation to teaching, Challenges and Future of the Profession. The event took place in the context of the II Pibid Unicamp Seminar, the II Seminar Experiences in Teaching Internship and the XIII Meeting of Undergraduate Students of Teacher Training Courses, held jointly at the Faculty of Education (FE).
Speaking to Unicamp's dean of Undergraduate Studies, professor Eliana Amaral, she emphasized that Unicamp needs to give visibility to the work it has carried out, in a pioneering way, in teacher training. "There are also many actions by students in several major projects. It turns out that these participations, as a whole, sometimes seem diluted, given that the University has made its contribution to schools, and vice versa", highlighted. , holder of the PRG portfolio, was sensitive to the cause of maintaining Pibid and highlighted that, “if the program is in fact extinguished, as rumors are, Unicamp will possibly reinvent the project, with another name and in the same molds”.
The coordinator of Pibid at Unicamp, professor Guilherme do Prado, highlighted the value of “teacher training” in “teacher training schools”. He pointed out some Pibid clues for graduation in teacher training, such as the need for school involvement, pedagogical work assisted and accompanied by the university and school teacher, and the articulation of training and profession, reflecting pedagogical work. He spoke of the challenge of having a dialogue between professional and pedagogical knowledge in the constitution of knowledge. “We don’t have to ask for a bachelor’s degree license to practice the profession,” he said. “In schools, there are people who want to learn. And Pibid says this to us in a resounding way.”
Professor Ana Archangelo, president of the Permanent Teacher Training Commission (CPFP), commented that one of the fundamental roles in school is to think and encourage people to think in a lively and ideal way. “But today the narrative is focused on the idea of not thinking,” she lamented. She recalled that everyone shares a feeling of chaos in education and does not know what the future will be like. “Our current policy has a mass system that requires a precise definition of skills and competencies, of curriculum, of assessment. It is an obsession with indicators, rankings and projection of possibilities in the most perverse sense. We have an attack on the tolerance of doubt and the paradox of not knowing. “I see that initiation into teaching is a privileged place to resist the ability to not think”, she highlighted, “and that the Pibid experience is a space to test what is real”.
Taking the floor, Professor Manoel Francisco do Amaral, representative of the Campinas Oeste Region Education Board, addressed the challenges for teacher training in the contemporary world at the event, talking about the contribution of Pibid. He discussed the essence of school and the role of the teacher. “We cannot throw away all the experience that the student brings with them. It is necessary to value dialogue, expanding the participation of all actors, and also of the school. A committed teacher needs to assess the level of learning of their students and respect each one's differences in learning, as we see that the lack of belonging to school is the main cause of school dropout", he concluded, ending with the phrase: #FicaPibid .
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