Formação continuada dos professores nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental: um estudo em duas redes municipais do Alto Uruguai

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze municipal preschool and basic education teachers' continuous training when it comes to public policies field. Furthermore, it also studies the teachers' and the professionals' conceptions as they are responsible for elaborating the continuous training, comparing the study through some questionnaires and interviews applied in two municipalities of the Alto Uruguai region. The study temporal cut was based in the last two years. In the other hand, in order to know the continuous training history and its relevant productions of this decade, the theoretical research was based in the last 10 years. This paper also shows documents analysis about training projects found in both municipal offices. Therefore, this research works with some categories of analysis highlighting relevant aspects about the local training. This research aims to know the teachers' continuous training, identifying their needs. It is necessary to emphasize the importance of continuous training for preschool teachers to improve the quality in the educational context. Teachers from both municipalities showed their satisfaction due to the continuous training projects / programs proposed by the municipal power. Thus, it was possible to discover that continuous training conceptions presented by teachers are close to the reflective perspectives found on school practice. Especially, the interest in courses / lectures / workshops and congresses which are connected to the perspective of putting together theory and practice to have education quality.