Initial teacher education at Pibid-English: representations of teacher learning and consolidation of the teacher professional choice
Abstract
Within the area of Applied Linguistics, this article analyses the representations of teacher learning and the consolidation of the English teacher professional choice of participants of the Institutional Program of Teaching Initiation Scholarship (Pibid – Letras/Inglês – Edital 061/2013 – Capes), in a state university in Paraná. The analyses are based on studies about teacher education in different modalities (Wallace, 1991; Bomfim & Conceição, 2014), with emphasis on the sociocultural perspective (Johnson & Freeman, 2001; Johnson, 2009; Abrahão, 2012; Salomão, 2013; Bastos & Sousa, 2021). This case study is a research of qualitative nature and interpretive epistemology (Schwandt, 2006), whose data were generated between 2015 and 2017 through the participants' answers to an open questionnaire. According to the results, the classroom is one of the most emphasized aspects in the undergraduate’s education, since the experiences provided by this context were instruments for the teacher learning development in a contextualized, situated and socially constituted way. Also, the types of knowledge deployed by pibidianos during their participation in the program were essential for the constitution of their teacher identities and, consequently, for the English teacher professional consolidation choice. In conclusion, the process of learning to be a teacher, as well as the consolidation of the undergraduate’s choice for the profession, were permeated by the construction of several types of knowledge in a social practice focused on teaching, circumscribed in a model of teacher learning guided by the sociocultural perspective. This research is expected to contribute with debates about teacher learning in teacher education programs, specially Pibid, as well as to engage with other studies that focus this same educational context (Mateus et al., 2013; Silvestre, 2017; El Kadri et al., 2018; among others).
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