“Não serei professora” - Um estudo imaginário sobre a docência na formação inicial de professores na educação especial

Abstract

What do you want to be when you grow up? And what don't you want to be when you grow up? Questions asked numerous times, especially to children. However, these questions were not just in the past, they accompanied me throughout my training, as well as the answer: I will not be a teacher. For this reason, I did this work with the objective of understanding how the memories that make up the imaginary that brought me to the Special Education course, becoming memories about the school and its teachers, were transformed throughout the course into the teaching. Based on theorists who deal with the Social Imaginary (CASTORIADIS, 1982), the Formation Narratives (JOSSO, 2004) and Teacher Formation (FREIRE, 2004, 2016), I will build a bridge between my experiences, memories and the training for teaching in Special Education. The materiality of this study was built from memories written in the form of memories and discussions, constituting them in training narratives. These memories were introduced during writing, together with the interpretations that I have of them today, and also, they are told from memories that most marked me in a specific way. As a result, I present questions such as self-knowledge, the understanding that we are social beings, shaped by the Social Imaginary, the relevance of the search for answers, in addition, despite the obstacles in this path, I chose teaching.