CURRICULUM AND SELF-EFFICACY: A STUDY ON SELF-EFFICACY ON INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ENVIRONMENT IN AMAZON`S COUNTRYSIDE REGION
Potentially integrated/ interdisciplinary curricula, Teacher professional development, Initial training, Education in the Amazon, Teacher self-efficacy.
Initial teacher training is a vast area of knowledge that presents a variety of research possibilities and one of the ways to understand and approach it is to consider it as part of a continuous and permanent process of professional development. In this sense, initial teacher training from an interdisciplinary perspective has expressed a wide range of approaches, since evaluating interdisciplinary initial teacher training includes the study of teacher professional identity from a perspective of Teacher Professional Development (TPD). And this dimension is affected by a potentially interdisciplinary/integrated curriculum, since it offers structures for the development of competencies and beliefs that can favor the professional performance of graduates and their insertion into the job market. Thus, the specific objectives are: to build/validate an instrument to measure teaching self-efficacy; to measure the teaching self-efficacy of LIMF undergraduates from different years; to compare the teaching self-efficacy of undergraduates from different degree courses with that of LIMF undergraduates. This is an exploratory study with an empirical-analytical methodology, which will use questionnaires. The target audience will be students of the Integrated Degree in Mathematics and Physics (LIMF) and this study will use the following data collection methods: in-depth analysis of official documents guiding the curriculum proposal, which has already been developed in other PPGE works, and application of a questionnaire, for this reason, the treatment and analysis of data will be markedly quantitative. In this way, it is hoped that the results can contribute to broadening the understanding of teacher self-efficacy and teacher training, as well as examining whether UFOPA is training teachers who believe they can be good teachers. Based on the reading of theoretical references and the analysis of some works already obtained on the themes of: teacher self-efficacy, potentially interdisciplinary/integrated curricula, teacher training and interdisciplinarity, we believe that this study will be of great relevance to understanding more about the curricular structure of the LIMF course.