Formação continuada de professores por meio da investigação-ação: resistência e autonomia docente na abordagem de questões sociocientíficas

Abstract

The aim of this research is to identify critical and emancipatory aspects in educational practice oriented by a collective and collaborative process of teacher continued education conducted through action research and socio-scientific issues. The theoretical framework is based on the critical literature, both in understanding the social praxis and the educational praxis in particular. Action research is the theoreticalmethodological approach adopted in this research, considering its formative possibilities of collective and collaborative theoretical-practical constructions among teachers for reflection and transformation of the educational practice, according to Wilfred Carr and Stephen Kemmis (1986). From those located educational practices in a critical perspective, this study proposed the pedagogical development of socioscientific issues through didactic-methodological strategies guided by controversies that affect the environment and have the basis of scientific and technological production, according to Ratcliffe and Grace (2003). Therefore, it focused on the establishment of a teaching collective called Work and Studies Group at School for Formative Actions, composed of three teachers of Sciences and a teacher of Geography of a public school of Paraná. The educational process took place in the period between February and June 2016, contemplating face-to-face meetings, production of materials, implementation of actions in classroom, reflection and problematization of educational practice, as its obstacles and challenges. For the constitution of data, the following resources were used: (1) logbook, with the record of actions and impressions, prepared by the researcher; (2) audio recordings of the meetings of the action research group, with later transcription of the dialogues carried out; (3) transcription of the dialogues made through the group in an app for the sharing of written messages, audios, links, etc .; (4) didactic materials produced by the group in the course of actions. The analysis of the empirical data covered the systematization, classification and elaboration of categories based on critical educational theory and liberation pedagogy, based on Freire (1979, 1987, 1996, 1999), Carr and Kemmis (1986), Giroux (1997), and Contreras (2012). Structural and pedagogical obstacles were identified for the effectiveness of teaching practice in a critical and collective perspective. The need for for resistance to loss of teacher autonomy through collective actions among teachers within the school were problematized and assumed centrality in the course of action research. The educational product of this research consisted of a teaching book elaborated from the actions and reflections developed by the group, taking into account the aspects of: the experience developed in the implementation of the research, the reflections from the investigation, the process of self-criticism and reflection by the researcher.