AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL AS A PRIVILEGED PLACE FOR CONTINUING TRAINING: BUILDING A DIALOGUE OF KNOWLEDGE
Teacher Education; Agricultural School; On-site continuing training.
This work arose from a questioning about the continuing education of teachers, offered directly at the place of work, in a way that is articulated with the demand of the team and the proposition of reframing the concept of self-education. In technical secondary education offered in agricultural schools, more specifically those that have integral and integrated education, we perceive the need for articulation of different knowledge and, we chose to focus the research on teachers, in view of their role as drivers of the teaching process- learning. This question arose from the observation of the implementation of a new high school model, with extended hours, in the teaching unit where the author works. A teaching unit with a rural profile, which offers agricultural education at a technical level integrated with high school, with the teaching staff coming from public tenders. It aimed to promote the school as a privileged space for continuing teacher education, through the articulation of knowledge, in an endogenous, collective and articulated construction by the unit's teachers. This work proposes the continuous training of teachers in loco. In an analysis about the feasibility of the research and the ordering of the steps to be followed, we arrived at an interactive design, since the author is part of the school's faculty, which led us to define participatory research as a methodology, as it is a flexible method and adaptable that seeks to bring about a change that benefits the studied group. As one of the methodological strategies we used the promotion of a training seminar, which took place in two shifts of the same day. It was clear that the teacher must have a posture that seeks a continuous work of intentional involvement in the construction of knowledge. The purpose of this research is that permanent and organic training models for the professionals of this teaching unit become concrete. Thus, this work, its results and applications, sought to strengthen the teaching profession by capitalizing on innovative experiences towards qualitative transformations and not just adhering to new devices based on an often decontextualized and imposing logic.