Didactic-pedagogical challenges in undergraduate courses in tourism in Brazil: insights into teaching discourses

This work aims to discuss the challenges of Educators of undergraduate courses in tourism in Brazil related to the operationalization of the teaching-learning process of Tourism. Regarding the specific objectives, we aim to: i) identify the main teaching methodologies of Brazilian teachers; ii) identify relevant aspects for teachers about their training path or their professional trajectory of these teachers. The main concepts discussed are related to the reflection on the didactic-pedagogical training of teachers and the teaching methodologies proposed by teachers in undergraduate courses in tourism in Brazil. To achieve the proposed objectives, we opted for a bibliographic and documentary study, and an analysis through analytical tools derived from Discourse Analysis, interviews conducted with 34 professors from 19 undergraduate courses in tourism in Brazil. Our main goal is to contribute to a reflection on the importance of giving more attention to the subject of teacher training of instructors of both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in tourism. The results point to recognition of the absence of formative possibilities in the academic environment and the use of different teaching practices usually centered on written texts and, more recently, on new information and Communication Technologies. This paper is the result of a doctoral study entitled "The audiovisual in higher education instructors' practice in tourism in Brazil: interfaces and tensions with leisure", which was developed in the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program in leisure studies of Federal University of Minas Gerais, under the guidance of Professor Christianne Luce Gomes (ANJOS JÚNIOR, 2021).