Aprendendo a ensinar : as narrativas autobiográficas no processo de vir a ser professora

Abstract

The current research lies in the discussions about teacher training in collaborative context which involves online learning communities, specifically in the constitution of the teaching identity of future teachers in the early years and the teaching insertion in the first year of professional career. For its development, it started with production readings which advocate that training must contemplate, through the lived and narrated experiences, situations of reflection and questioning the historical, social and political contexts in which they were and are forming teachers, providing discussions of certain practices and projecting to others, in an interwoven process of the histories, knowledge, processes and rituals. Among several education training courses that propose to support the professional development of primary school teachers, at different phases of their lecturer career, with the auxiliary of experienced professionals from public schools and university, lies in the Teacher Gateway of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), the online extension course - 2013 which is linked to this doctoral thesis. The course-titled "Narratives of Education in Mathematics and Portuguese Language - 2013" and it was developed in an online learning community, via the internet. The purpose of the course privileged collaboration among peers, questioning, reflection, research, educational planning and collaboration through narratives about the own process of the undergraduates training in Pedagogy, focused on meaningful experiences of schooling, training, especially with the Portuguese Language and Mathematics disciplines. Participants selected for the course are undergraduating women in the last year of Pedagogy and teachers up to three years teaching experience. It consists itself in a study centered on the investigations about the self-written - with the narratives of education and professional narratives - , as a practice teacher training. This is the research scene which seeks to understand how the undergraduate women, still in beginning education, signaling in their autobiographical narratives, the evidence of the constitution of the teaching identity and its unfoldments in professional practice that begins, especially the learning built in an online learning community. The interpretative-comprehensive analysis of education narratives, aim at that learning in an online learning community were significant, give place to new experiences that emerge in the own live, doing and experiment. The results indicate that the online extension course - 2013 led collaborative moments set out in online forums; construction of knowledge about teaching and being a teacher as fundamental attitudes of the educational process; deepening of the reflection process on their own stories; practice records on experiences; sharing with peers pedagogical practices developed at school. These and other learnings enabled the constuction of the artifact of scholarship. The study of autobiographical narratives produced and discussed in an online learning community, showed how this process contribuites to the constituition of the teaching professional identity and professional development that reveal themselves in constant tension on a continuum.