Abstract

GAETE VERGARA, Marcela  and  CASTRO HIDALGO, Abelardo. The transition process towards a critical-phenomenological consciousness of the teaching profession. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2012, vol.38, n.02, pp.307-322. ISSN 1517-9702.

This article presents part of the results of a qualitative study of phenomenological orientation, focused on understanding and interpreting the perceptions and experiences of teachers of Basic General Education who have taken part in projects of investigation of their own pedagogical practice as a relevant factor in the development of a critical-phenomenological consciousness about their own profession. Specifically, the work identifies and analyses five key axes that are put in motion in the process of building teachers' consciousness. The process is characterized by an asynchronous movement of increasing depth from a natural or naive consciousness towards a critical consciousness that empowers epistemologically and socially the teachers, emerging as a more complex and deep thinking about the education phenomenon, giving them a growing degree of professional autonomy and possibilities of becoming agents of social change. The work also identifies that the transformation towards a critical consciousness is complex, recursive, cyclical and ascendant, with the investigation of their own practice being a necessary but not sufficient condition for the development of a critical consciousness of the teaching task. Indeed, the path to a deeper consciousness may be blocked or lead to a naive or natural consciousness if one of the axes is overdeveloped or developed exclusively without the connection with the others.

Keywords : Teaching Profession; Educational Investigation; Critical Consciousness.

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