Os processos formativos no programa de iniciação à docência da UFMT : a experiência de um grupo de licenciandas em Pedagogia

Abstract

This work addresses the education of teachers as professional development. The study was developed in the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Mato Grosso in the research area of School Organization, Teacher Education, and Teaching Practices. The study investigated the issue of how the education process is meant/reframed by a group of teachers linked to the Scholarship Program of Teacher Initiation (PIBID) of UFMT, with the goal of understanding the meanings/reframings of the educational process in that program. The study covered nine teachers linked to PIBID in the category of scholarship student. The theoretical and methodological perspective approaches the narrative inquiry, as Clandinin and Connelly (2011), Mello (2005). The meanings were constructed from a set of narratives produced by the teachers for entry into the group (letter of motivation), for the course of Pedagogy (dossier), for the study (interview), in the strategies used in teacher initiation (teaching case and portfolio), and narratives produced by the researcher (field notes). The study took as a base the studies of Marcelo Garcia (1999, 2008), Vaillant and Carlos Marcelo (2012), Nóvoa (1995, 1997, 2009), Mizukami (2006, 2008), Shulman (2005), Grossman, Wilson and Shulman (2005), Gudmundsdóttir and Shulman (2005), Pineau (2003, 2006, 2010), Zeichner (1997, 1998, 2008), Connelly and Clandinin (1995), Clandinin and Connelly (2011), Dewey (2010). By reconstructing the experiences, the following themes were constructed: 1. Reflection as a formative process: meanings constructed, 2. Learnings of the teaching profession and reinterpretations. In the experiences lived by the group, collaboration and reflection were fundamental for the movements of auto and hetero formation. These experiences were framed as singular and formative but the development achieved is not linked with mere participation in the group, but with the movements that the group afforded to each of its members and its collective. Reframed as a differential to the formation of teachers, the initiation process intertwines the initial education of the teachers and the formative process of the coordinator of the group, and was established as one of the moments of the professional development in which this group was involved, which provided an opportunity for a diversity of learnings, changing of attitudes, of conceptions and construction of a knowledge base for the practice of teaching of that group.