Conhecimentos manifestos por professores para o ensino na alfabetização escolar

Abstract

The current work proposes an analysis of the knowledge expressed by the teachers towards alphabetizing, which would allow understanding them in the context in which school alphabetization is situated, considering the position occupied by the alphabetizing teacher on the division of work in education. The hypothesis was established on the assertive that the observed problems in school alphabetization are related to its transitional character and instrumental in the educational system and to the role kept for the alphabetizing teacher of executioner of the external knowledge produced of his practice. Based on the gathering of information, it was elaborated a questioner that allowed an approach about the knowledge manifested by these teachers taking a three dimension analysis: Of belonging to social groups; of the conceptions and personal values and of the condition of work and professional training. The questioner was answered by eleven teachers of the first year of fundamental education of the public schools at the city of São Paulo. On the analysis, it was related the manifestations of the consulted teachers with the information present at official documents that were selected for this discussion. On the results of the research it was observed that the context in which happens the construction of hegemony of constructivism by the educational policies contributes to reproduce the logic that rules the organization of work in education, separating theoretical and practical. It was also observed that, based on the data obtained, evidences of the coexistence of various actions and practices on the educational characteristics of these teachers, as the teachers that identified with the constructivist proposal as those that identified with the traditional proposal