Tornar-se doCENte: uma viagem pelas experiências formativas de professores da Educação Infantil do Centro Educacional de Niterói de 1980 a 2006

Abstract

This dissertation centrality investigates narratives of teachers who worked at the segment of Preschool of Centro Educacional de Niterói (CEN), between 1980 and 2006. This research seeks to understand, by a dive into autobiographical approaches as a privileged way for it, how teachers experienced education actions, or (trans)formation actions, developed in spacetime of this school, perceived as instituting movements. Finally, sought to understand the impact that experience of being a teacher at CEN, or becoming a doCENt, brought to research subjects identities construction and for their educational activities.To achieve these objectives, became necessary, in parallel, to understand the school and its main identifying marks. Thus, the dissertation also includes an investigation of the historical context of its creation, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Elements of a trip were taken as a metaphor to understand research itinerary and thus reflect on theoretical and methodological frameworks that underlie and permeate it, such as: concepts of history, experience, (auto)biographical narratives, teacher education, instituting movements, conversations and content analysis. From intertwining of these concepts, taken as fundamental to research work, the dialogue with institution historical context and the conversations with teachers, experienced as part of the research, this dissertation sought to understand speeches, education processes and educative spaces. Among many reflections that this research provides, I emphasize : the importance of searching for knowledge as a constitutive element of teacher identity, so being a teacher as well as a researcher should be a central concern of teacher education; the need for closer dialogue between school and university; and the transformation of each school into a teacher educating center, turning each school into a discussion and construction forum of knowledge and practice, in a personal and collective perspective .