Auto(trans)formações permanentes com professores do ensino médio regular: re-ad-mirando a docência e re-significando experiências

Abstract

This doctoral thesis project is part of the Formation, Knowledge and Professional Development research line of the Postgraduate Program in Education of the Federal University of Santa Maria/RS. We aim, with this research proposal, to understand with the teachers the movements of re-signification and constitution of the teaching, experienced by them in the High School through a dialogical-coparticipatory continuing formation. To that end, we seek to answer the following research problem: how do high school teachers [re]signify teaching through dialogic-participatory continuing formation? Methodologically, this study is based on a qualitative approach of the Research-self(trans)formation type, in which the co-authors have the possibility, through reflexive interlocutions, to invest in a critical (re)look at themselves, their educational praxis and the public policies of formation experienced by them, with authorship and autonomy. The investigation was carried out in two phases: initially we presented an open questionnaire to teachers and managers of secondary schools in the city of Santa Maria / RS, in order to outline a general and initial panorama of their feeling-thinking-acting in relation to continuing education policies experienced throughout the profession; then, we held 5 meetings of research-self(trans)formation, in each of the 3 participating schools, respecting the participation criterion, through the Investigative-self(trans)formative Dialogic Circles. For the teachers meetings dynamic with, we used the epistemological-political proposal of the Investigative-self(trans)formative Dialogic Circles research, inspired by the Freirean Culture Circles in approximation with research-training (JOSSO, 2010, 2011). We used the hermeneutic approach for the research constructs interpretation and understanding that emerged from the generating themes. The investigation presented four generating themes: 1) dialogues: university, school, CRE and teacher training policies (1st phase); 2) (with) sharing: reflections on training and significant research (1st phase); 3) resistance and struggle for dignity and professional valorization (2nd phase); 4) walking towards oneself with others in search of authorship and autonomy in self(trans)formation continuing training (2nd phase). As theoretical-conceptual contributions, we are based on Freire's propositions in dialogue with other authors, such as: Brandão (2013), Gadamer (2015), Josso (2010, 2011), Henz (2014, 2015), Henz and Freitas (2015) and Andrade (2019), for the methodology; Imbernón (2009, 2010, 2011), Garcia (2010), Bolzan; Isaia (2009), Isaia (2009); Dourado (2010, 2016), Azevedo (2014), André (2010), Gatti (2008), for continuing self(trans)formation; and the Laws and Resolutions referring to public policies for continuing education, enacted from 1971 to the present day. Reflecting with the co-authors on the legislation, we found that, from 1988 to the beginning of 2016, it has made great progress, recognizing the need and the right to continuing training and professional development; however it has not evolved in terms of guaranteeing these rights. According to the teachers, this lack of rights guarantee and the policies of continuing education that do not very significantly affect their teaching constitution, but there are other daily challenges and to carry out internal or external training at school that are added to this. After discussing them, in addition to looking at the obstacles and the daily obstacles, the co-authors did a challenging exercise of walking towards themselves with fellow teachers, in order to understand how they are becoming teachers throughout their personal-professional life. This made it possible to re-signify some speeches, incorporating a more accurate understanding of their role in teaching and in continuing self(trans)formation. The co-authors of the three participating schools also added to the constitution of teaching the marks left by their teachers and / or the subjective mark left by the mother or sister teacher; they expanded these discussions, when they demonstrated that they became aware that, if they bring marks from their educators, they also leave marks on their students, which they considered to be positive. This understanding allowed co-authors to reevaluate and re-signify many of their tasks in their teaching constitution. In this perspective, this study allows me to consider that Research-self(trans)formation and the Investigative-self(trans)formative Dialogic Circles constitute an epistemological-political proposal for dynamic research capable of significantly contributing to investigations in human sciences. As they are a way of entering the school space not to collect data, but to re-build their/our teaching tasks as teachers, they are characterized as a rich and powerful training strategy. Likewise, they cooperate with continuing self(trans)formation, through co-participative reflective dialogues, in which co-authors and researcher-coordinators, cooperatively, assume themselves as author and autonomous subjects, capable of critically reflecting on their limit situations, placing themselves in a searching permanent process for them own being and all of who are involved in the educational context.