Docência em matemática e formação em serviço :um estudo sobre a epistemologia da prática em torno do conceito de professor reflexivo

Abstract

This research proposes the theme teaching in mathematics and in-service training: a study related to the epistemology of practice and the concept of reflective teacher and has as objective to analyze the in-service training of teachers of elementary mathematics that are operating in the municipal schools of the city of Cedar from the concepts of epistemology and reflective teacher practice. The research was characterized by two methods: the inductive approach and the dialectic. Inductively, we observed the phenomenon researched, discovering the existing relations between them to make generalizations from such relationships. Dialectically, it was examined whether the totality that surrounds the object searched, interpreting reality and verifying the facts that occur in the context of the study. For the development of research was carried out a case study with 18 math teachers who work from the 6th to the 9th grade in the municipal network of Education Cedar, which is situated in the Center-South region of the State of Ceará. The study had as research issues: math teachers, effective exercise comprise your do daily as space for in-service training? Reflections on practice incorporate a process of awareness of social, economic and political implications of the activity of teaching? It is believed that in the daily exercise of the teaching activity, the dialogue between colleagues, shared experiences, meetings and collective studies, continuing education courses and the sharing of knowledge, in mutual training spaces. For data collection has been chosen by semi-structured interview in which they were listed the important aspects that contemplated the goals outlined in the research. The analysis of the information collected was initiated with the screenplay of the interviews applied to teachers and this showed that the daily reflection on the teaching, making the interaction with co-workers and the participation in events sponsored by the school, contribute to the formation of the professor of mathematics, which should reflect on their own practice of teaching in mathematics, enabling the production of new knowledge andas a result, find new alternatives to the problems that emerge on a daily basis of the classroom.