TRAINING NEEDS IN TRAINING PROCESSES IN THE AREA OF SCIENCE EDUCATION: A SCIENTIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

The teaching profession is constituted by a permanent process of formation, because knowledge is in constant construction and the challenges of this profession are not static. Permanent teacher training must be linked to the training needs of educators and, in this sense, this study, which is part of a broader research at the doctoral level, aims to investigate how and where discussions about training needs have taken place in the context of training processes in the field of Science Education. For this, a scientometric analysis was carried out on theses and dissertations published in the Theses and Dissertations Catalog of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel and the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. It is pointed out that research on training needs in the field of Education is significant, but in the scope of Science Education they are still incipient, emerging the need to deepen studies that address such issues in the context of teacher training, in that field.