Teaching Knowledge of Teachers of the E-TEC Brasil Network: A case study in the South of the country
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Abstract
The text contributes to the discussions on teacher education and profession within the scope of Professional and Technological Education (EFA) through Distance Education (EAD), presenting an analysis of the fundamental knowledge to teaching in this education modality. Its theoretical contributions are based on Alarcão (1998), Bicudo (1999), Charlot (2018), Kuenzer (2008), Tardif (2002), among others. Methodologically, it is a qualitative, documentary and field research focused on phenomenological research. It was structured through ideographic and nomothetic analysis from the speeches of managers, teachers, and tutors of the E-Tec Brazil Network at the Federal Institute Farroupilha (IFFAR). The results indicate as fundamental knowledge for the teaching activity in EFA: the teaching professional knowledge of which stands out the knowledge of the students' contexts, language, use of technological devices, generosity, the world of work, and the knowledge of non-utilitarian human formation.