Trajetórias de professores na carreira e percursos na cidade: estudo sobre a socialização de professores na carreira do magistério

Abstract

This work investigates the teachers‟ socialization in the teaching career in the initial grades of Primary School in the city of São Paulo. It is inserted into the group of researches about teachers‟ socialization according to a critical perspective and a relational approach, that considers the relation between school and society, understanding the teacher as a product and a producer of culture and the school within the society, that is, one cannot be understood without the other. From the initial observation that teachers shift schools many times during their trajectory in the career, the research was divided into two parts. First of all, in 2007, quantitative data was collected, by means of the application of a questionnaire to 156 teachers, from 17 primary schools (initial grades), focusing on the teachers‟ shifts in the city, the position of their favorite schools, their reasons for this preference, besides personal characteristics such as: age, children, concentration of job functions, factors that interfere in the choice of the schools. Secondly, in 2008, seven teachers were selected, among those who had participated in the first part, in order to answer semi-structured interviews, based on specific guidelines, aiming to deepen into aspects that compose the teachers‟ trajectories in the teaching career. Supported by Pierre Bourdieu‟s concept of habitus instrument that allows us to understand schemes, practices, wishes, common to the subjects or to the groups who share the same social trajectory it was possible to identify common features presented by the teachers in their depositions. The constant shifts described by the teachers reveal aspects of a school culture that are presented and incorporated during the trajectory through several schools and that give bureaucratical characterists to the teaching work. Those shifts also reveal relationships of domination within the schools and evidence the power structure inside the city territory. To understand the construction of those teachers‟ process of socialization, we observed aspects related to disposals according to their family, career socialization their ingress in the profession; career rules; differences among the schools; relationship with colleagues and technical team; adjustment of schools, teaching nets, timetables; differences/similarities among segments, nets and educational politics besides disposals related to gender and the cities, that include the school community and the shifts