TEACHER IDENTITY AND TRAINING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

A PRODUCTION BALANCE

Abstract

Teachers education who work in higher education is still characterized as a topic to be explored, especially with regard to its identity signification. Despite not having a leading role yet, theoretical production on this topic has increased qualitatively and quantitatively in the last decades. In this growing ascension, how has academic research on this topic been configured and which authors have stood out? What knowledge gaps have been exposed? In order to provoke reflections on these and other questions, this secondary research aimed to carry out a balance of production on the teachers educations working in Higher Education, in the pursuit of meanings which cross the development of their identity processes. To this end, we identified publications of dissertations and theses in the scope of the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) repository, in the movement of analysis on the main indicators obtained in the studies selected between the years 2015 and 2020. The research considered the broad area of knowledge “Education” and the descriptors “Higher Education” and “Identity Processes” as a search base. It was found that, although it is in an ascending spiral of meaning and production, there is still much to discuss and investigate, especially themes that allow the correlation of the teachers education who work in higher education with the development of their identity processes and with the reflection on their life experiences and narratives.