The challenge of teaching internships in Remote Classes as a praxis on a Professional Master’s in Health Psychology

Abstract

In this article, through a report on experience, we aim to present subsidies that substantiate a discussion regarding the Teaching Internship on High Education, with the objective of showcasing the meaning of doing a teaching internship, done through a mandatory curricular component in a Post-Graduation Program, on the professional master’s level, in Health Psychology, linked to a High Education Institution (HEI). The experience described was done through the remote teaching modality in the year of 2021, in an atypical scenario caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic. We propose a discussion on the education practice, based on the perspective of Freire and present arguments that compose intrinsically the worldwide scenario and the need to adapt from the on-site modality to remote, considering, as well, the nuances that involve the educational praxis, like planning, the functions exercised, the platform choices, the engagements between teachers and students, individualized and collective meetings, as well as the evaluative methods. Considering, then, that the pandemic caused changes in the way of teaching-learning, as well as in the exercise of the formation of a lecturer. Nonetheless, there are fundamental aspects that stand out from this alterations like the experience of teaching on High Education, being available and sensible to the dialogic process of teaching and learning.