A inserção do professor nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental: a construção de sua identidade profissional

Abstract

This study was attached to a research line titled “The School Education and Pedagogical practice of a Professional Teacher”, a part of the Postgraduate Program in Education from Universidade do Oeste Paulista, which has as theme the difficulties and problems that a teacher faces during its trajectory and professional insertion. The main idea was to identify and to analyze the construction of teacher’s identity through the perception of the beginning teachers at the moment of their career insertion, as well as understanding the conflicts and difficulties at this process. In a specific way, the research aimed to find out which are the dilemmas and the difficulties founded by teachers in the beginning of their career; to identify the formative activities that Public School System and schools provide to them and which one contribute to the construction of their identity; to investigate the moments that occurs the exchange of knowledge between the peers; to analyze the perception that this teachers have about their own formation at the professional context; to show the distance between beginning formation and practice and how this impact when they are inserted at the school environment.The methodology used was qualitative descriptive and interpretative, having as technical procedure a bibliographical research. The searches were done in digital databases such as Capes, SciELO e BDTD. For data collection it was used a questionnaire and a semistructured interview, applied to eight (8) beginner teachers of Rancharia – SP. For the data analysis, four categories were established according to Bardin (2009): The choice of teaching; Teacher’s insertion and the reality shock; Construction of professionalism and teaching identity and Future projections. As a result of the research, it was pointed that teachers who chose teaching career do that because they believe that there is a big professional field in the area; they also realize that the initial training was not enough to overcome with the problems that they deal with the profession, contextualizing such perceptions through "clash of reality”; they look for a recognition for their skills, constructing by this way , their daily identity as workers through action/reflection/action of their own pedagogical practice and continuous formation to keep into their profession. Therefore, we concluded that this study can create discussions and reflections about policies to support beginner teachers and process of teacher’s formation.