O agir docente representado na fala de uma professora do sistema de ensino militar

Abstract

This research aims to suggest interpretations of teaching work represented in the speech of a fundamental and high school teacher, of the Military School System, reconfigured in a text which was composed by the Counterpart Instruction Method (IAS). Besides, this work aims to know what this teacher does or not to continuously act in this system, as well as to try to understand the military teaching system, through her voice. To understand the representations of workers and the activities that they carry out has been a challenge for researchers, the reason why the focus on this work draws the interest of linguistic studies that approach language and interaction. Our analysis model is based on the procedures designed by Bronckart, with some alterations to include the aims of this research. Thus, our theoretical support is mainly based on Bronckart (1999, 2006, 2008), Machado (2004, 2007, 2009), Bulea (2010) and Bulea-Bronckart et al. (2013), besides the contributions of Work Ergonomics and Activity Clinics, by Clot (2001, 2007, 2010) and Amigues (2004). We realized an analysis of the representations of teaching work in the military basic teaching system, in a school called Military School. Some factors motivated us to do our work with a corpus coming from this context, from which, it is worth mentioning: i) it is a differentiated teaching context due to its specificities, once it is associated to the Ministry of Education and subordinated to the Ministry of Defense; ii) the students group is very heterogeneous, once it is composed by students who are the children of transferred military people and students who passed public exams to enter the institution; iii) the teaching staff is also heterogeneous, once it is composed by teachers who are permanent military officers (Military Academy and Complementary Staff of officers QCO), temporary military officers (Technical Temporary Officers OTT), permanent civilian teachers (federal public servants), temporary civilian teachers; and iv) the schools that integrate the system have had good results in the national scenario. The analysis of the data made it possible for us to propose considerations and reflections about the teaching work of the military teaching system. With an organizational level analysis, we have reached the thematic contents presented by the teacher at the moment of the interview, which revealed the diversity of tasks that the teacher has to accomplish in her work. At the enunciation level, we verified that the teacher posits herself as the agent of the analyzed work, as well as we identified the other agents brought into the text, in special the student. The analysis of the action pictures demonstrated the interdependence between the teacher and the student in order for the teaching work to be accomplished, a fact that marks two characteristics of this work: its intersubjective orientation and the fact of belonging to the field of the imponderable. The action pictures identified in the representations of the teacher s work also reinforced the agentive dimension of her work, the work determinations dimension and work temporal organization dimension. Finally, we have outlined some considerations about the use of the Counterpart Instruction method on the teaching work, what has proved its efficacy, considering the teaching work specificities in terms of the teacher s own agentivity concerning her work.