Por uma outra Epistemologia de Formação: Conversas sobre um Projeto de Formação de Professoras no Município de Queimados

Abstract

This thesis has its origin in the doctoral research Conversas entre professores: a prática como ponto de encontro, outra forma de pensar a formação e os currículos praticados carried out with Municipal Public School teachers in Queimados, Rio de Janeiro. The main purpose of this investigation is to envisage a Continuing Education Epistemology based on the classroom praxis and the exchange of teachers life experiences in professional and non-professional backgrounds, de-invisibilizing life and continuing education complexity. It also makes evident the importance of narratives for the comprehension of the process itself. Standing on a methodology/policy that embraces classroom life and teachers narratives about their own experiences inside and outside classrooms contexts, this work supports that life memories are a crucial element of self-formation likewise sharing such memories among peers. It considers the notion that public educational policies are not conceived apart from teachers daily practices. Instead, they are practices-policies woven from the clash among different groups with their own political convictions, therefore expressing their political values and objectives. This study also brings to light what has been stated about Continuing Education in official documents in Brazil and how the concepts in such documents have been understood and applied to teachers practices in Queimados. Presenting itself as counter-hegemonic practices-policies that de-invisibilize school life, this work shows public education policies as a daily, collective intertwined process of disputes, understanding that there are new ways to produce practices-policies of (self)formation which entangle teacher s life stories