TEACHERS' CONCEPTIONS OF JOURNALISM

Abstract

This article focuses on the perspective that teachers who teach journalism, working in journalism courses in public universities (Brazilian federal and state ones), have on the conceptions of university teaching, professional practice and teaching knowledge. The research included a quantitative and qualitative both closed questions by assertions that should be valued from the Likert scale and open questions that have been articulated from the content analysis. By the time of the survey, 49 public universities (federal and state ones) were raised by offering the course of Journalism, so we estimated a total of 595 individuals. Only 184 (30.9%) responded the research tool between April and May, 2013. As a result, the group of respondents was profiled, and it also shows teachers still teaching a conception of cognitive and humanistic trends, but still rooted to old traditional trends. Underlined the concern of teachers, journalists improve their practice in the classroom.