Formação continuada em serviço: a percepção dos docentes em uma escola estadual de Erechim (RS)

Abstract

This research has as main objective to analyze the perception of the teachers of a state school in the city of Erechim (RS) on programs of continued education for teachers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four teachers, dealing more specifically about the last formation attended by them, but also seeking more general thoughts about continuing education. A complex term, continuing education is the area with the role of studying and intervening in the ways in which teachers learn and develop their educational practice, promoting the reflection of their own practices and actions; more than a moment to obtain teaching methods, but to reflect on the practice, on the action and on the previous reflection itself. The interviews with the teachers revealed the role of continued education for the change of educational action, but also signaled to the personal character of several training courses, making it a moment of dialogue and conversation rather than reflection and criticism. Even so, the interviewees formation managed to provoke changes in the teaching action of the interviews, bringing more meaning to their practice, at least relating the course with reflection, albeit very briefly. Conversations with teachers also revealed, however, the need for more investment in education in general and specifically in the courses and continuing education programs offered to teachers, improving the quality of these programs according to the indications found in the specialized literature.