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AGUIAR, Maria da Conceição Carrilho de. O caráter simbólico e prático da formação permanente para professores. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2010, vol.10, n.30, pp.301-316. ISSN 1981-416X.

This study presents a discussion about permanent education for teachers. It is a qualitative research that focused on the social representations theory, aiming at understanding what teachers think and suggest about permanent education. In order to achieve this, we had sixty two (62) teachers from elementary school, high school and college and universities, public and private, answer a questionnaire. Their answers were analyzed with the support of the software ALCESTER, which filters a text to obtain its central meaning. The analyses indicate that permanent education initiatives must not be isolatedly planned since the teachers are active subjects in this personal and professional process construction. The social representations are a mix of ideas and beliefs that the teachers have accumulated about both the work that they do and the continuing education that they need and actually get, and are associated to the feelings and awareness they have of belonging to a group as professionals that interact with others and with the environment. This study corroborates the importance of the social representations theory as an appropriate instrument to understand the educational objects as a whole and teachers’ permanent education initiatives in particular.

Palavras-chave : Teacher; Permanent Education; Meanings.

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