Supervised practice in history courses: a study about Brazil/Portugal

Abstract

The study presented in this article was carried out in 2019 with students from the third year of the History course at the State University of Londrina/Paraná/Brazil, and the students from the Master’s Degree in History Teaching at the University of Minho, in the city of Braga in Portugal, and addressed the meaning of the Supervised Practice for the training of History teachers. The discipline is formed within the field of dialogue between the epistemology of History and teaching procedures based on the science of History. In this text, we chose to explore a questionnaire applied to the two realities with questions that face the meaning of History, of being a History teacher and the experience lived during the implementation of teaching projects in the regencies carried out within public schools in both countries. The research in both institutions took place for two main reasons: first, because we consider that in these institutions there is an improvement in the training of History teachers, translated into a model of Supervised Practice with avant-garde characteristics, whose accomplishment is reflected in research that provokes the perception of the importance of supervised educational practices, and, second, because the experiences translated in the interviews will help understanding this moment as an essential epistemological basis for teacher training.