Teacher Continuing Education In Technical Education: Demands And Challenges To Professionalism

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate and problematize the issue of teacher continuing education in a complex vision, focusing the interest in knowing more and better teachers and their teaching in order to find out which paths used to (re)build their professionalism. Accordingly, it seeks to analyze the formation processes that help (or not) teachers to respond to the demands, the expectations, the diversity and richness of possibilities inside and outside the classroom. The methodology represents a qualitative approach, descriptive. For data collection procedure was used as the systematic observation of teaching activities in the school routine and semi-structured individual interviews. The research involved six teachers of an institution of technical education in the city of Porto Alegre/RS. Data were organized and interpreted through Textual Analysis of Discourse. Based on the analysis there is a concern about their participation and responsibility in school life, since teachers do not perceive the school as a space for collective construction; notes also continued education is questioned by some teachers, claiming to be necessary to rethink it; It is understood that teacher training and professionalism will only make sense if contemplating this whole trajectory – personal and professional – of teachers.