Abstract:

Our society has undergone countless and varied influences coming from the scientific, technological and sociological scope. These influences reshape the behavior and motivation of young people, which points to the increasingly urgent need to train professionals with a critical capacity to properly analyze the messages they receive and to make responsible decisions at all levels. Being an inherent process of society, teaching is impelled to reformulate old practices, from basic to advanced levels. In this trend, it is fundamental that the university environment be stimulating and replace practices of exclusive transmission of knowledge. Thus, new teaching practices have been developed in recent years. Based on several of them, this work had the objective of reporting an experience of didactic-pedagogical training of future masters and doctors in the area of engineering, sensitizing them to issues related to new methodologies of teaching and learning, from their own experiences with a differentiated method. This is a program of the University of São Paulo, applied at the School of Engineering of Lorena, where the programmatic content is put into practice in an unusual way. The results, obtained from the statements of graduates of the discipline, indicate a great acceptance of the practice and perception of real development of abilities favorable to the current demands of teaching excellence.

Keywords:

Active methodologies, higher teaching, transversal competences, teaching-learning process.