Formação continuada e saberes da prática dos professores da educação profissional do SENAI de Santa Cruz do Sul.

Abstract

This work aims to describe and analyze the teachers' continued formation of the School of Professional Education SENAI Carlos Tannhauser. The question of the research is: how the teachers’ continued formation occurs related to organization, structure, approached thematics, concepts and perspectives that guide it? In that sense the main goal of this work is to describe and analyze the teachers’ continued formation related to organization, structure, approached thematics, concepts and perspectives that guide it. As specific goals it looks to describe professional features of teachers and provide them moments of reflection, dialog and experience share that allow getting elements to construct a continued formation program. This work tries to contribute with the discussion about teachers’ formation in professional education and has as main theoretical authors Tardif, Machado, Shön, Ciavatta, Kuenzer, Nóvoa, Cunha, Lima Filho and Manfredi. This study presents a qualitative approach of a case study type, where the following instruments were used: semi structured interview, document analysis and focal group. The individuals of this research were six teachers that work on professional education developed in the abovementioned institution. As central points, from data analysis, the categories of “initial and continued formation”, “pedagogical practice” and “being a teacher at SENAI” were chosen. It is possible to notice the importance of continued education that aims to make the teacher reflect about its pedagogical practice, carrying it to be aware of the necessity of a new position to meet the work challenges.