TEACHING COMPETENCES ACCORDING TO PROFESSIONALS WHO MADE A TRANSITION FROM THE CORPORATE WORLD TO THE ACADEMIA: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY

Abstract

This article aims to continue the study by Kilimnik et al. (2011) - as in previous studies conducted on the subject by Kilimnik, Correa Oliveira (2009a) and Kilimnik and Correa (2009b) - on professional skills and managers who made a career transition from corporations to the academic field. Using these authors’ original proposal five years after their research, we seek to investigate any changes in their teaching skills as well as to identify didactic and pedagogical strategies used. Adopting the qualitative approach as done previously, this research features a longitudinal cohort study and it involved conducting 25 semi-structured interviews in depth with individuals who participated in the previous empirical survey. The content analysis of interviews was carried out with the help of the QDA Miner software. The results confirm a significant part of the competencies identified in the previous survey. It was also verified that the respondents seek to transfer the experience of the corporate world to the academia using educational techniques such as case studies and dynamics. According to the respondents themselves, work experience, despite being one of the strengths they brought from the corporate world, is not enough if not associated with theory, generating learning.

Keywords

• Competências
• Transição de carreira
• Carreira acadêmica