Constituir-se professor nas ilhas de Belém: ensinando e aprendendo matemática

Abstract

The objective of this research is to understand how the teachers of the Islands of Belém consist as teachers throughout a trajectory of professional formation in the partner-cultural conditions of this region with prominence to its mathematics knowledge. It is about teachers located in schools of five Islands managed by Belem City Hall and Para government Pará. Once diversified forms of knowledge are involved, we theoretically base our research in the authors: Tardif, Lorenzato, Fiorentini e Lorenzato, Imbernón, Smole e Diniz, Charlot, Zabala e Perrenoud. The methodology is based on the researcher’s participant observation (also called Ethnographic) and in the qualitative analysis of the obtained information. The research is based on the inquiry that searched to understand how the teachers in Island of Belém had formed with registered data: in the historical-cultural identification of the islands, of the respective schools, through interviews with the respective teachers, through data obtained in classroom through the mathematics course for initial series for teachers of the island, photos, videos and sound recording. The research shows that the teachers of initial series deal with mathematical concepts in classroom, thus they teach mathematics. It evidences the challenges and the necessity of a deeper knowledge of these concepts, as well as the perseverance before the difficulties found in the search of continued formation and also in the development of the teacher’s practice. The analysis shows that these teachers elaborate and elaborate again their knowledge through the development of their professional practice and also it identifies the search for knowledge by these teachers.