INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND ALTERNATION IN TEACHER EDUCATION

considerations from a supervised internship proposal

Abstract

The paper focus on the potential of the supervised internship in teaching to the establishment of a pedagogy of alternation in teaching higher education. It presents information about a project in progress at a Pedagogy Course of UNESP, campus of Rio Claro, in which trainees and primary teachers establish a intergenerational partnership in teaching activities. According to the data collected from reports of the partnerships, the relationships between the different generations of teachers may be doubly formative, as a resource for a initiation of the trainees in the professional culture of teaching and, at the same time, to promote the process of professional self-engenderment of current teachers,who may, including, realize more clearly their responsibility as to the education of new generations of teachers.