Abstract

SILVA, Epifânia Barbosa da  and  CASTRO, Rafael Fonseca de. Initial teacher education and teaching practice: cultural-historical research on 5th grade teachers in Porto Velho, RO, Brazil. Educ. Form. [online]. 2022, vol.7, e9373.  Epub Mar 25, 2023. ISSN 2448-3583.  https://doi.org/10.25053/redufor.v7.e9373.

This paper describes part of a study that investigated how 5th grade teachers who work in Elementary Schools in Porto Velho, Rondônia (RO), Brazil, perceive their teaching practice in relation to their initial teacher education processes. Based on the Cultural-Historical Theory, the study used the dialectical method for analyzing data in the unit “Relation between teacher education and teaching practice carried out by 5th grade teachers” based on two analytical axes. This paper highlights discussions on axis 1, which is “Context of teacher education in Porto Velho”. Fifty-four teachers answered a mixed questionnaire online and the main findings showed not only that practice is fundamental to face the dichotomy between theory and practice and to strengthen the indecomposable relation between teacher education and teaching practice but also that the Cultural-Historical Theory was poorly addressed in their initial education. This paper defends the need to intensify debate on the relation between teacher education and teaching practice to enable Elementary School teachers’ effective pedagogical praxis.

Keywords : teacher education; teaching practice; pedagogical praxis; elementary school..

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