To be a teacher: challenges of the teaching practice of licentiate in Letters

The present work has as its theme the training of teachers in undergraduate courses in Letters. The objective is to analyze the training of teachers in undergraduate courses in Letters from the perspective of teacher-reflective and Freirean humanism. It is, therefore, a qualitative research, with data collection in reports of experience of undergraduate students of the course of Letters of a private university in the south of Brazil. Content analysis was performed using the Bardin technique. The results pointed to two basic categories of teacher training in the literature course investigated: the student-teacher who reaffirms his teaching profile with the practice of the internship and the student-teacher who forms his / her teaching identity with the practice of the internship. In addition, it is necessary to observe the need of all students to develop the consciousness of the reflective teacher from the beginning of graduation, extending throughout the teaching career of professionals, based on a humanistic and integral vision of the human person.