The transition from assistant professor to novel professor: a shared experience

Abstract

Throughout history, universities have forged and developed different training models for their teaching staff. In the case of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the teaching assistant is one of the models that has continued to constitute the initial stage of the academic career of several university professors. Recovering this training process from the point of view of people directly involved in it provides unique elements of the teaching work at UNAM. Thus, this article takes into account the training experience of two teachers of the Department of Pedagogy, of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL) of UNAM who worked as teaching assistants. Such episodes are approached in two stages: their development as teaching assistants and their first year as teachers.

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