Atividade de formação de professores de ensino fundamental I: leitura como instrumento de ensino-aprendizagem

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to understand critically the conduction of a teachers in-service development project, organized as an activity which aimed at understanding the relation among researchers (PUC-SP), teachers and the managerial staff of a full time state school located in the Northeast area of São Paulo city. The in-service development project focused on the participants discussion of reading practices in all content areas dealt with within the school context. This work aims specifically at understanding the ways researchers, managers and different content areas teachers: a) interact in the development process to comprehend and transform reading practices in different content areas; b) relate theory and practice in understanding and transforming of the acting patterns while planning and developing didactic sequences for working with reading; c) understand their own senses and those of others in the interactions; and d) share meanings related to the processes of reading during the activity of organizing and discussing didactic sequences. It is theoretically based on the social cultural historical Activity Theory (TASHC) as discussed by Vygotsky (1930, 1934), Leontiev (1977, 1978) and Engeström (1999a, 1999b) regarding to the teachinglearning and the development processes. Teachers development, in this context of continuous learning, is understood as a social cultural historical activity, in which researchers, teachers and managers are active and effective participants in the construction of a collective object. It is organized according to the methodological principles of the Critical Collaborative Research (PCCOL) as proposed by Magalhães (2009). The relations among participants can be characterized as critical-collaborative once moments are created in which collaboration and critical reflection are essencial for sharing new meanings. The data analysis points at the importance of the criticalreflective process in continuous learning environments, as the project organization and its modes of discursive organization enhance a movement of conscious transformation to relate theory and practice, creating contexts of re-signifying senses and sharing meanings as a result of the development work