“Tive medo, mas como o tempo fui driblando os obstáculos": narrativa e constituição identitária docente

Abstract

We have the understanding that the lived experiences can be configured in a potent source of learning and development; as well as that their narrative is fundamental for our constitution as beings and for the construction of our identities. Based on these assumptions, among others, we bring in this article a substrate of an investigation, in progress, that embarks on the paths of narrative research, developed collectively, within the scope of the XXX Research Group. The main objective of the research is to understand the constituent characteristics of the identity and professionality of teachers throughout their careers, involving aspects of training and professional development at different levels of education; the production of data has been carried out with the use of letters. In this scenario, the discussion now brought within the limits of this text presents the impressions collected with a participant of the research in question, which allowed us to reflect on the vicissitudes of the teaching career, its ups and downs, the confrontation between idealization and reality, the achievements and anxieties of the profession, as well as the paths, sometimes tortuous, that are trodden to professional stabilization.