Formação e saberes das professoras do Assentamento Rural Vila Isabel, Bahia, Brasil: Tecendo teias, desvelando identidades

Abstract

This dissertation has as object of study the formation and the knowing of teachers who work in Vila Isabel Rural Settlement, situated in the South region of Bahia State. The purposes of the research were: Identifying the teachers knowing and experiences; showing their singularities; and sketching the identities of those professionals by the knowledge they mobilize in classroom and their similarities and differences. In charge of achieving this investigation, a qualitative approach was used, with the aim for enabling a better analysis of the teachers professional formation, considering their social context, their life histories and their ways of comprehending and acting in the world. The thematic oral history was used as a metodology that makes possible the study of people s experience, searching for the grasp of facts that might reveal the identity of the teachers from the narrative of the participants. The information was collected by half-structuralized individual interviews and the application of a questionnaire, which were realized with a group of six teachers, registered in audio and whole written. Through what was reported by the educators, we were disclosed the importance of the knowing that comes from the experience for the educational practice, and even the influence of the social context on the teacher s action. However, the collaborators point out that the theoretical fundamentals are indispensable and they are present in their educational activities. It also became evident that the teacher s formation happens through discontinuities and for a not determined period, where the several pedagogical trends and models of performance get mixed, since the technicist one up to the teacher as a critic intellectual. The Movement of Fight for the Land and its ideals are constituted as educational agents, becoming basic elements in the formation of the individuals students and teachers who perform in that social context. With this investigation, we try to open a way of possibilities, reviving a dream, giving a voice to historical individuals and their real experiences that were marked by victories, failures and resistance.