Constitution of teacher identities in Pibid activities

Abstract

The Institutional Scholarship Program for Teaching Initiation (Pibid) is a Brazilian government initiative through its Ministry of Education (MEC) promoted by the Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination (Capes). It has been considered by the academic community as relevant to teacher training courses for Basic Education (EB) to promote the inclusion of students in undergraduate programs at public schools’ activities since their first years in college. This paper aims to reflect on the importance of Pibid Chemistry/ Uneb for the establishment of Teaching Initiation Fellows (IDs) teachers’ identities from the exercise of understanding discourses of social actors involved in the process by the use of qualitative approach. Theoretical references about the Brazilian educational panorama are presented with respect to undergraduate courses, partircularly Chemistry, and the establishment of teachers’ identities. It concludes that during the activities the IDs assumed distinct identity forms: monitors, Basic Education teachers, researchers and reflective teachers.