The article presents brief critical analysis of the historical of the formation of the education professionals in Brazil, clearing the ambiguities of the course of pedagogy from its creation to the present time, the trajectory of the courses of teachers' formation and the impact of the debates promoted in the institutions, entities, movements, around the subject. In the sequence, the text analyzes the nature and the identity of the pedagogy as an area of knowledge of the educational field and the subjects related to the professional exercise of pedagogues and teachers. It finally indicates suggestions of institutional organization and some possible trajectories of those professionals' formation that point for a change of the current picture.