| Category: Previous and early-career experiences | |
| Subcategories | Description |
| Undergraduation | Experiences which contributed to the beginning of the teaching career |
| Postgraduation | Livingnesses which marked and added to the teaching practice |
| Professional Experiences | The building-up of professional experiences before teaching career |
| Category: Challenges, expectations and influences in the beginning of teaching | |
| Subcategories | Description |
| Admission in teaching | “Becoming” a professor, paths followed and the “admission received”: invitation, indication and personal pursuit |
| Motivation to “become a professor” | Personal influences, breaking barriers, “gift”, sharing knowledge; and external, family and professors |
| Where do I start? Inspirations... | Behaviors to be, or not to be, adopted based on role model professor’s observation and counter examples. |
| “I was too young...” challenges in the beginning of the career | Situations and feeling raised in the beginning of the career |