Formação Continuada e Desenvolvimento Profissional Docente: Perspectivas e Desafios
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33871/23594381.2024.22.3.9807Abstract
This article analyzes teachers' understanding of continuing education, its necessity, methods of provision, and the differences between institutional training and those pursued by personal initiative. It also discusses the concepts of self-education, hetero-education, and eco-education in professional development for teachers (PDT). The research, with a qualitative and exploratory approach, used a virtual questionnaire with five open-ended questions applied to teachers who graduated from UERN, Advanced Campus of Pau dos Ferros. For data analysis, we employed an interpretive approach, correlating it with discourse analysis. The theoretical framework includes authors such as Garcia (1999), Nóvoa (2010; 2019), André (2011), Fiorentini (2008), and Caldas (2021), who address teacher training and PDT. The results show that teachers recognize the importance of continuing education for their development and highlight the need to balance institutionally provided training with autonomous initiatives based on personal interests. It is concluded that DPD is a continuous and dynamic process, requiring both institutional support and teacher proactivity.