Abstract

SARMENTO, Teresa. Teacher training for a humane society. Educ. Puc. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.2, pp.285-297. ISSN 2318-0870.  https://doi.org/10.24220/P1519-3993-2017220200009.

Reflecting on the training of teachers nowadays forces the educator to think about the society in which one lives, the vision about school, students/children and young people, teachers, the present and the future. To problematize the issue, the following questions arise: what is meant by education and training? Can it be associated to the Durkheimian view that education is a vertical action of one generation over another with the purpose of transmitting a previously built heritage? Or should the educator understand education as the promotion of global development, as advocated in paideia? What meanings of education underlie teacher training? In what society do they live? Is this the society they want? Does the educator place herself before society as a passive member or as an intervener who assumes citizenship? What vision does the teacher have of those with whom, or about whom, professionalism is developed: students receiving knowledge transmitted by the teacher or people with whom she collaborates to construct socio-historical knowledge? How do they understand themselves as teachers: as technicians or professionals? And what are their perspectives concerning training: a reproduction of institutions or a continuous process for professional emancipation? The above questions were the motto for the development of the present article in which, based on a global approach of our present society of the ideological-educational concepts and the conditions for teaching, we endeavor to situate and problematize teacher training with the purpose of promoting a more humanized society.

Keywords : Teacher training; Humanization; Educational organization.

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