Abstract

SILVA, Patrícia Petitinga; OLIVEIRA, Andréia Maria Pereira de  and  SOUZA, Elizeu Clementino de. AND NOW, WHO AM I? I WILL REMEMBER, IF I CAN! I’M DETERMINED TO DO IT!: IDENTITY (DE)CONSTRUCTIONS OF A TEACHER WHO TEACHES ABOUT SCIENCES. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2018, vol.34, e183635.  Epub Sep 20, 2018. ISSN 1982-6621.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-4698183635.

The study aimed to describe experiences negotiated in diverse paths to understand how they forge situations in which it’s possible to imagine a teacher who teaches about Sciences. In this autobiographical research, where life history is used as a device for investigation, we present the imagination as an important component of our experience in the world, which enables us to create new relationships, enlarging our notion of self and transcending time and space. We defend that in participating in social communities, such as the school communities of which teachers are members, meanings are (re)negotiated in relation to others, leading them to a learning experience about teaching that allows them to imagine themselves in the world, (de)constructing teaching identities of belonging in these communities. As we belong simultaneously to many different communities, we (de)construct multiple identities throughout our careers, in a contingent movement in which we assume aspects of our identities.

Keywords : Identity; Negotiation of meanings; Imagination; Science teaching; Teaching.

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