Docência na educação superior: compreensões das relações de (in)dissociabilidade com a pesquisa e a extensão na atuação profissional

Our objective, in this production, is to understand some challenges of teaching in higher education, focusing on the inseparability between teaching, research and extension. It is fundamental to understand that institutions have the responsibility to promote teaching, research and extension, however the professor at this level does not always realize these three dimensions in his work. The investigation was conducted based on a questionnaire answered by sixty-nine teachers who worked in higher education in 2019. The research is of a qualitative nature and the data were organized by the operations cycle of Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA). The constructed results were problematized in two categories emerging in the textual corpus: a) teaching knowledge and professional constitution and b) institutional practices and academic and professional training. The analysis points out the teaching is a complex and fundamental activity for human and professional development. The inseparability of teaching, research and extension activities constitutes itself as a means and condition for the accomplishment of educational practices articulated in contemporaneity.Keywords: Teaching professional constitution. Higher Education Institutions. Institutional Practices.