Teaching practice in the view of future teachers: a look from situations internalized in the church

Abstract

From a qualitative approach, as a methodological procedure for collecting information, it was used letter-writing from Pedagogy students enrolled in the course from 2017 to 2020 in a higher education institution in a city of Mato Grosso do Sul. Data was organized based on content analysis, bringing forward evidence of the church’s influence on the path of future teachers. From a Bourdieusian sociological perspective, it is made clear that arriving Pedagogy students have provisions already installed as part of the habitus on the teaching practice, which proceeds to be incorporated throughout their lifes and schooling paths. Analysis indicates a strong presence of religion on the trajectory of theses future teachers, either from practices that some of them perpetuate in school out of their own beliefs, or through their experience in the church. The study indicates courses need to open spaces for future teachers to share their trajectories to understand how academics’ religious dispositions have influenced how the profession is perceived, as well as to contribute to/for restructuring the ways in which teaching practice is perceived.