TEACHER EDUCATION: SOME COLLABORATIVES REFLECTIONS

Abstract

This study reflects on teachers’ educational development, regarding the self, the career, the life cycles, the knowledge and professional development of teachers. It has recently been observed that teachers’ lives have been focused on studies. These studies are important in order to see teachers as individuals, analyzing his/her constructions, his/her daily life, his/her writing. In short, their know-how/ know-being. Teachers keep constructing themselves through interaction with other people during their lives history. They pass, therefore, through professional life cycles that should be taken into consideration in accounts of the development of education projects. In that sense, teachers’ education should be seen as a continuous process that does not finish with initial teacher education. It is worth remembering the professional knowledge and crises that this individual undergoes. These issues are discussed in teacher development courses, understood as a process, which it believes
in the potential of teachers and schools. Schools needs to re-think themselves as “schools that learn” where everybody is invited to learn in a collaborative and in a dynamic process. To recognize teachers, as education professionals it is necessary to see teachers as incomplete, inconclusive and in constant development.