A formação continuada de professores: um trabalho em rede

Abstract

The research reflects on the continuing education management, having a networking perspective, and seeks knowing the teachers, the Municipal Department of Education and Youth managers, and the municipal education system of Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul conceptions, in relation to the implemented continuing education processes, and the autonomous formation mechanisms of the subjects. It results from the need to reflect on the effectiveness of the continuing education programs and autonomous processes in order to qualify the teaching process. It presents a parallel between the conception of the teachers and the managers, through a questionnaire with open questions, the relevant legislation to the subject and bibliographic research. It is divided into five chapters: the methodology used in the research, of qualitative nature, by the case study and the content analysis, involving educational and school managers and teachers; the conceptions regarding the continuing education term, considering the managers and teachers views, the educational legislation and the bibliographic reference; the continuing education in network as a possibility to qualify those processes and meet the expectations; the limits and the challenges that the continuing education presents, both individually and collective; and the professional profile who chooses the teaching profession faced with the contemporary challenges. In conclusion, it is necessary that the professional education is engaged with the continuing education, autonomous or networking, as a requirement inherent to the profession. With the changes and technological advances other instruments can contribute to the pedagogical action and the teacher must take possession of them. It also points to the need of schools and school systems provide conditions to the continuing education, but also for teachers who need to be proactive and seek mechanisms for their own formation.