Imagens que balizaram o professor que gosta do que faz: trajetórias no ensino profissional.

Abstract

This investigation problematizes the necessity of recalling images which have been present during the life course of the educator who enjoys what he does and might have been paid tribute by his students for that. To do so, a research on five co-workers – two women and three men – has been accomplished by me, aiming to know what images under their life courses had been related to their practices. They are Professional Technology Education teachers of the Federal Department of Technology Education of Pelotas, located in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul (CEFET-RS). Lighted by theoretical studies of the Imaginary by the Imaginary, Education and Memory Study Group (GEPIEM), this dissertation is born. The research focuses on the studies of Teaching Formation, mainly on the life course of the educator who works on Professional Education. For that reason, I have built a methodology based on the studies of the Imaginary from two perspectives, named by Gilbert Durand as “direct knowledge” and “indirect knowledge”. In the first one, I have used semistructuralized interviews, and in the second one, I have used cards designed by me, (re)created to emerge a narrative guided by the image, allowing the representations of the educators researched in their practices to flow. The analysis consisted in searching for and visualizing the images which have founded the being and doing knowledge. In the imaginary of the five educators, pictures, symbols and ideas clearly connected to their occupation and practices appear. The founding images emerged were the following: open horizons, evolution and creation, pleasure and guilt, believing the impossible and looking for change. The course of the problematizations included in this dissertation, besides the ones mentioned above, has been supported by authors who research on Education and Teatcher Education. At last, it is relevant to point out that my story as a person and as a professor has been the timing bomb of this investigation, since my life course has been full of images dreamed of and drawn, which have founded my searchings as well as waken my curiosity to accomplish this research.