Professores de matemática: entrelaçar de vidas entre o pessoal e o profissional

Abstract

This research was carried out in the city of Jataí-GO, with mathematics teachers of the high school state education network, whose general goal is to understand the influences of teachers' life history on their pedagogical practices and the contribution of these narratives to their formation. With a focus on the analysis of teachers' social and professional memories, this paper, in a qualitative approach, sought to answer the following question: What is the influence of life histories on the pedagogical practices of high school mathematics teachers? The research material was obtained through interviews based on oral history methodology, carried out with five teachers. These interviews, in addition to being used as a research source, also gave rise to an educational documentary, presented as an educational product. In the discussion of the problem and for the interpretation of the narratives, several authors of the social sciences and the educational sciences were interviewed. Also, theoretical reflections on the cinematographic documentary genre were undertaken, exploring their perspectives and contributions in the construction and dissemination of knowledge. The results showed that the personal and professional trajectories are determining factors in the way teachers act, exposing their conceptions about pedagogical doing and about the profession.