A interação professor-aluno e os saberes da experiência: implicações e perspectivas para a formação contínua docente

Abstract

Nowadays, it is required more from the teachers in relation to their initial and continuing institutionalized education. Only this training, however, is not enough to meet all the teachers’ needs, so, it is assumed that there are other learning situations that articulate and complement the academic knowledge, such as teacher-student interaction. This relationship assumes centrality in the learning process of the teacher as well, regarding the explanation of experiential knowledge, relevant to the practice of teaching. Then, the problem presents itself: which explicit knowledge of experience in teacher-student interaction enable training teachers in the early years of elementary education in the city of Itapipoca – in the state of Ceará? From this restlessness, we outlined the overall goal of this research: to analyze which experience knowledge explicit in the teacher-student interaction enables training teachers in the early years of elementary education in the city of Itapipoca - Ceará. This problem unfolds in the following specific objectives: to identify knowledge of experience occurring in the teacher-student relationship in the context of the classroom and to verify the importance of this knowledge for the teacher training. The historical and dialectical materialism was chosen as a method of study of this research, which is based in the qualitative approach and is analyzed as a case study. The research was conducted at the Educational Center Maria Azevedo Viana Magalhães, located in the city of Itapipoca (Ceará), during the years 2011-2013. Among the authors that supported this study, we mention: Haidt, Imbernon, Libâneo, Lima, Morales, Nóvoa, Pimenta, Therrien and Tardif. Nine teachers from the third to the fifth years of primary school were selected as study subjects. The following procedures were adopted for data collection: literature review, a questionnaire to characterize the subjects; conducting semi-structured interviews, and classroom observation. Continuous teacher training, teacher-student and teachers’ knowledge of experience are the categories of this investigation, based on the research problem, the theoretical framework and the data collected. The results of this research revealed that teachers have acquired over the practice of teaching, a lot of learning with their students, which were characterized and selected as significant for the profession, because they enabled training. Among the knowledge of experience constituted in the interaction with the students, the subjects indicated that during the years of education they learned to pay more attention, listen, tolerate and understand the students; recognize, value and identify the skills that students have in class; identify which students are different, so the learning process of these also holds this profile; be more humane, sensitive, considerate and caring in the classroom with students, demonstrating greater affection for them worrying about the students’ reality; be more persistent to achieve the goals set for each class, being flexible when needed, do not be authoritative in their work, and also recognize that they learn continuously interacting with their students. Indeed, it is evident that the student-teacher interaction allows teachers to acquire various kinds of knowledge of experience, integrated into the training of these professionals, through permanent, dynamic, subjective, plural and singular learning processes of teachers. Such learning comes from the practice of teaching dashed through interaction with the students, and is important for the training and the teaching profession.