ABSTRACT
This texts aims to question meanings and challenges of institutional support bodies for college professors, focusing on the debate on teaching training needs and their defining and directing logics, and highlighting the risk of neotechnicistic solutions. The choice for individual narratives is used as a revealing resource of tensions between the explicit desires of professors and the real conditions of institutional support for an innovative and historical-placed pedagogical praxis. The assessment as category is retrieved as an educational aspect to encourage thorough vertical thinking processes, capable of subsidizing constructive actions, in spite of them being individual, collective or institutional, towards a co-responsible social quality higher education. It is argued that teaching support institutional spaces may become strategic places to strengthen the educational spaces micropolitics in order to commit to an uplifting professional formation within a social point of view.
Keywords:
Higher education pedagogy; Training needs; Teacher development; Teaching quality; Participatory responsibility