O BACHAREL E A DOCÊNCIA: AS INFLUÊNCIAS DA PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO NA CARREIRA PROFISSIONAL.

We have the objective of discussing the paths taken by bachelors to teaching in Higher Education, in particular, about how the graduate influenced the trajectories that led them to teaching, considering that, in this course, images and experiences about being a teacher are built and Contribute to their actions as teachers. We question what has led a professional with training in baccalaureate to practice the teaching profession. We conducted a qualitative research based on the methodology of the Comprehensive Interview with thirteen teachers with a baccalaureate degree who work as teachers in Higher Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. The Comprehensive Interview was the methodology chosen to consider it capable of understanding the multiplicity of meanings that led the bachelors to act as teachers, as well as help understand the relationship between their training as a Bachelor and the exercise of university teaching. Through the analysis of the interviewees' speeches, it can be seen that teachers report on the importance of Postgraduation for university teaching, considering it as the path that leads the bachelor to the teaching profession, although there is a need to broaden the discussion about The current formative profile of graduate programs in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]