Abstract

SILVA, Rejane Dias da; DIAS, Adelaide Alves  and  ARAUJO, Sonia Pimenta de. Professionalism and teacher education: social representations of teachers. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.50, pp.987-1007. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416X.16.050.DS09.

This study examines the social representation of teacher training of teachers in public schools in Pernambuco State. We assume that the social representations can contribute to trigger educational practices and provide access to their knowledge. Questionnaires were used to free association and association led to 80 teachers from 20 schools in primary and secondary education. We identify the semantic field of social representations of teachers and the elements that constitute the core. The results revealed that the representations about the formation circulate around the categories educational, academic and professional. The category was insignificant in the field of representations of the subjects investigated. The core of these representations is organized around the academic dimension. The representations of the training are anchored in academic category indicating the strong influence of initial training in undergraduate programs, although they were found substantiated evidence of changes in emphasis in the teaching category found in the representations of teachers.

Keywords : Teacher Professionalism; Social Representations; Teaching Practice.

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