FORMAÇÃO E DESENVOLVIMENTO PROFISSIONAL: UMA ANÁLISE DE PERIÓDICOS NACIONAIS - 1982 - 2000

This text analyses the keywords Formation and Professional Devclopment in the context of academic production published in national journal and accessible at the Data Bnnk Prodllclion of Knowledge in the Aren of Edllcation Administrafion- National Periodicals 1982-2000 (Castro & Werle, 2002). This theme appears as the sixth most frequent keywords considering the complete Data Bank, 301 articles were categorized with this keywords. The importance granted to the theme Formation and Professional Development in the context of educational policies and in national debates about the formation and preparation of teachers is expressed in its frequency and temporal distribution. The theme present an ascendant distribution with higher incidence in the late 90's, reflecting the debate and changes provoked by the new law (LDB). The keywords highly associated with Formation and Professional Development are education and professionalism of the educator, Knowledge and administrative action, higher education, education and determinants of the context, technological innovations, Undergraduate education course. Among the periodicals the Revista Educacao e Sociedade presents the highest number of articles classified with this keywords.