Abstract

DIAZ PACHECO, César Marcelo. The pedagogical content knowledge of three engineers professors: an approach from multimodal discourse analysis. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.1, pp.300-330. ISSN 1409-4703.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/aie.v17i1.27275.

This paper provides a reflexive view to those professors with no pedagogical formation, but with an interest in developing a critical point of view about the processes of academic training. It is done a deep analysis of the pedagogical content knowledge manifested in the classroom practices of three professors with no studies in the field of Pedagogy, but that are teaching in Higher Education. Through multimodal discourse analysis, semiotic interactions were explored through the observation of typical activities developed in the classroom, with the aim of describing the teaching practices of three engineers of an Industrial Engineering School of a traditional Chilean university. A multiple case study was conducted using an audiovisual record of two classroom sessions and a semi-structured interview to each professor. This way, the classroom speech was analyzed to discover how the professors reveal the semiotic resources that they articulate for the professional education of their students. The results show us that the professors generate a classroom speech influenced by the particular knowledge about their field and accordingly, the semiotic means and the semiotic modes that they reveal vary according to the kind of disciplinary knowledge that is produced. As we well know, in order to develop professional skills, teaching involves the integration of diverse knowledge, and because of that, the relationship between the disciplinary content and the pedagogical knowledge should be rather intrinsic, or inclusive. This implies that the professors - independent of their professional education - should manage culturally constructed representations, not only about their field and contents, but also about their pedagogical action.

Keywords : pedagogical content knowledge; multimodality; discourse analysis; semiotics; civil engineering; university teachers.

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