Narrativas da formação acadêmica : quando as alunas são professoras

Abstract

The scope of this research study consists on the representations of academic education for a group of teachers. It is related to the line of research for Education History and Philosophy and examines descriptive memorials. These autobiographical narratives about their lives and education were written by a group of 19 teachers who used to be students at the distance learning program for Pedagogy held at the University of Caxias do Sul. Theoretical support is based especially on Chartier, Pesavento, Nóvoa, Tardif and Mizukami, among others. Methodology applied emphasizes a few aspects of Cultural History, in an attempt of producing plausible narrative from the data analyzed, and is supported by discourse textual analysis, based on categories emerging from the processes of impregnation, categorization, and theorization of the empiric material that makes up the corpus of the study. The narratives written by the teachers were taken as a privileged object of analysis with the purpose of perceiving what representations each one of them made about their own process of academic education. The architecture of the text is organized in four chapters Academic education: a process (re)lived through reflexive writing practice; Being a teacher: representations of a choice; Managing academic education for teachers, and "From teacher to pedagogue: marks in a trajectory". The descriptive memorials made it possible to study the path taken by the teachers in their trajectory for academic education, revealing representations about their professional choice, their identification as students, their reencounter with learning and their encounter with teaching knowledge. Narratives presented a few signs of growth for their reflexive posture and of strengthening for their professional identities, besides indicating that their education is ongoing. The main contributions coming from this study rely on the understanding that from academic education, these teachers started their weaving process as professionals in a learning process which took place by linking bridges with their experience and aggregating new knowledge. In the narrative of the teachers there are words that make it possible to understand education from a perspective of somebody that is a character in the story.