Formação de professores no Programa Jornal, Escola e Comunidade

Abstract

The aim of this work was to investigate the contribution of a non standard education program of a daily newspaper to the improvement of the teaching staff practice. As a result, we conclude that it can be considered as a training program to the teachers once by the influence that it performs on the school s political pedagogic program it can define the didactics choices of the teachers allowing them to get a critical view about the traditional curricula in order to build a new point of view which reflects the whishes of the school s community. We still realized that the energy of the teacher s updating process requires a constant building of their pedagogic knowledge further than their specific issues making mandatory the immersion in the reality. However, only being exposed to the news doesn t add pedagogic values to the teaching practice. Thus, the curricula of the programs of teaching education must explore that resource as a fundamental strategy to get its aims. We worked with the so called Jornal, Escola e Comunidade program of the newspaper A Tribuna de Santos, SP and the study that we have done involved the analysis about the potential use of newspapers in classes and the identification of the characteristics which contributes to set up a teaching education program. Besides that we have done a documental research to present this program and we also interviewed some teachers who work in a public school of Mongaguá, a small city on the Mata Atlântica Coast, at the seaside of São Paulo