Narrativas e suas potencialidades para a formação docente: biogramas de vivências de professoras de um curso de especialização

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the narratives of teachers and the potential they foster regarding continuing education. The research question pursues the following question: How do the narratives constructed in a specialization course for teachers who work in basic education contribute to the process of self-knowledge, self-formation of practices and knowledge and professional identity in a movement of continued education? Narratives are considered in our research as a method and phenomenon. They were built on the specialization course in Science and Mathematics in the Initial Years in 2021, offered by the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, more specifically in the discipline Academic and Professional Discursive Practices in Teaching. The course took place in eight classes, which became an important instrument for understanding how the narratives were constructed. This dissertation relies on theoretical approaches and dialogues with authors in the field, and is the result of a bibliographical survey related to narrative and the continued training of teachers between 2015 and 2021. As an instrument for organizing narratives, I focus on the biogram, which is a map of events related to professional careers and life stories, in which I sought as an example the studies of Bolívar, Domingos and Fernandez. I then use as primary material the narratives of the student teachers on the UFJF specialization course, which, with the movement of the biogram, I divided for analysis into five axes: 1- Challenges of the teaching profession; 2- The journey of continued training; 3- The narrative dynamics; 4- Difficulties in reading and writing; 5- Possibilities for self-education and self-knowledge. After the discussion and analysis, in the continuation of this research, I point to the possibilities of collective and individual use of narratives regarding continued education, self-education and self-knowledge.