MEANING OF TEACHING: A CASE STUDY CLOSE TO PIBID AND PRE-SERVICE PHYSICS TEACHERS

This paper analyzes the initial training process of pre service physics teachers in the introductory teaching program - PIBID. The discussion-based on references that address the constitution of teaching identity in Physics teachers. The research question is; What aspects of teaching are perceived and constructed by undergraduate students during their participation in PIBID? The objectives were: 1) to expose undergraduate students' perceptions related to their participation in the program and 2) to discuss the constitution of the teaching identity based on PIBID. Data emerged as a result of an interview with each of the fellows. The research sought for understanding and express both the underlying meanings related to the PIBID and teacher training by the students. This process led us to use "cores of meaning" as a methodological reference. We started building twenty pre indicators; subsequently six indicators and, finally, the two nuclei of meaning: teaching as a contradictory space and motivation as an important specificity for teaching performance. Results allow broadening the discussion of these two nuclei of meaning and the research question.