GROUP TOOL AND PROFESSOR FORMATION

Abstract

The Research and Study Group in Education and Social Imaginary – GEPEIS has come to question about the importance of the group space for the professor formation. We direct towards getting to know the possibilities of considering the group as a formation tool; identifying knowledge and the representations built by the people that share the experience of the collective production in a research and study group; also, contributing for the support of the theoretical alternatives in the professor formation field. Through the different subject formation paths we aim at cognizing learning, the imaginary significations and the possibility of perceiving the group as a formation tool by utilizing master’s dissertations, images, oral interviews and written narratives. The diversity as a positive factor in the group, the exchange of ideas and thoughts, the acquired learning and life experiences that this collective space is able to provide was a strong characteristic which was mentioned by the subjects once we analyzed the results. Questions that go beyond the academic demands have been raised by the groundwork group from this coexistence and interaction among the group participants. Therefore, we are able to realize the importance of the group as a tool for the professor formation, as a territory which makes possible to have the mobilizing experience of knowledge, constituted representations and other ways of thinking about such formation.