Formação continuada de professores: aplicabilidade de um programa

Abstract

This investigation aimed at verifying the teachers' conceptions as for the continuing education on service during the development of the Net High School Program, instituted by the State Department of Education of the State of São Paulo. This Program was implemented in the year of 2004 and extended up to the year of 2006, with the purpose of qualifying High School teachers, providing them with a reflection on the educational practice and stimulating reading and texts production in order to improve public education, which has been showing a knowledge deficit in the last years. Therefore, a research update was carried out with the use of descriptive, qualitative and interpretative approach of the subject-collaborators' perception, through semi-structured interviews enquiring about the development of the program as continuing education on service. Based on the teachers-collaborators' speech, the description and analysis made it possible to consider the teachers' conception regarding the applicability of the PROGRAM as specific education within the modality. The conclusion was that continuing education motivates the teachers and it proposes a dialogue between the theory and the education action.