Teacher narratives as a resource for understanding the didactic transfer of the university professor

Abstract

The purpose of the work was to analyze different narratives that characterize the teaching process of the university professor within a perspective of the didactic transposition. The research, of exploratory type, included the application of the life history, as a tool of qualitative methodology for the generation of data, to a teaching sample of three regional universities of Chile. This was done in three areas of professional training: experimental sciences, social sciences and health sciences. The results, although they revealed a differentiated understanding of the use of didactic elements in teaching, according to the disciplinary area, indicate that teachers lack a theoretical justification about their potential usefulness in teaching. Based on the results of the study, it is concluded that there is a cultural reproduction of professional knowledge during the development of the didactic task.