This study analyzes the academic production of two work groups: Formation of Professors and Sociology of the Education, coming from the studies presented in Anped (the Brazilian National Association on Research and Graduate Studies in Education) Annual Meetings and the Anped's Seminary of the South Region (1998). Our objective consists on investigating the interest that the subjects such as formation of professors and professionalization of the faculty have awakened among the sociologists of the education, as well as the influence of foreign sociologists in the Brazilian socio-educational production. For in such a way, the works and communications presented between 1995 and 2000 had been collected all minutely and classified by their central subject; after that, we proceeded the election from some works, that had deserved a more deepened analysis. Finally, we have elaborated a synthesis supported in the conclusions of the selected studies, privileging three basic aspects, to know: a new profile of professor, the professionalization and the formation of professors, aiming to construct some categories of analysis that will be able to guide more research in course in this area of knowledge.
formation of professors; professionalization; faculty; syntheses