The meaning of the Pedagogue’s Training

Abstract

The article revisits the effective participation of the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Goiás (FE/UFG) in the movement of resistance and rupture to the model of Pedagogy course by qualifications. This work is a partial result of the interinstitutional research "The history of higher education in Goiás between the years 1980 and 1993: the meaning of the training of the pedagogue," and highlights the developments of the project of society based on the productivist tendency. The resistance and rupture of the FE/UFG to the qualifications and the epistemology that supported it were expressed in the defense of a formation based on teaching in the Pedagogy course. In 1984, Professor Ildeu Moreira Coêlho led this defense from the FE/UFG and, together with intellectuals such as Paulo Freire, Marilena Chauí, and Carlos Rodrigues Brandão, among others, participated in the debates. The discussion about the Pedagogy course is historical, a debate permeated by a correlation of forces, disputes, and interests that go beyond the field of education. Thus, there is a compelling need to consider the most recent discussions presented by the curricular guidelines intended to be implemented for Pedagogy courses, in a way to adapt teacher training courses to the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC). Therefore, the debate about the meaning of pedagogue training remains essential.