This research aimed the comprehension of historical configuration that teaching as a social practice has acquired within brazilian higher education context, like political structure, shapes and modifications that the teaching profession has been going through since colonial times until the 1990?s years, with the State reform. The main objectives were: understand the configurations adopted by the teaching profession through out the historic evolution of higher education in Brazil, and to identify the role assumed by teachers at their job on that historical path. The research constitutes a historiographic work of articulation of the long duration logic to identify the relations needed to understand how these configurations were built. By this view, it has been developed a bibliographic and documental study that revealed the configurations assumed by the teaching profession understanding conformations, transformations, permanencies and ruptures that the teaching profession has gone by at it?s historical constitution. The investigation has shown that the different configurations through which the teaching profession in higher education has passed were related to projects thought to society that reached the role of developer of cultural politics reassuring the perspective that teaching has the power to form to different possibilities and goals. The shapes and structures through which the teaching profession has passed were defined at the context of political,
cultural, economic, social and historical determinations, as well as the role they came to play. So, the teaching job has been part of our social and historical structure assuming actively the identity construction of brazilian society and the formation of professional picture of brazilian intellectuality.
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