Autoformação docente: limites e possibilidades

Abstract

There is another mean of teaching profession enhancement besides graduation and up dating courses, that must be closely investigated, which is self instruction. This is the investment of the individual in himself and in his formation, from the very moment he is aware of his needs and difficulties. Taking these as his limits, they may hinder or stimulate him to changes, making these obstacles into self instruction possibilities. The aim of this work, is the investigation of some of these critical situations, to find out how the individual deals with these limits and possibilities inside and/or outside himself. As per the data analysis obtained from the educational biography of six biology teachers, who work in public schools in the outskirts of São Paulo and a neighbor city, I tried and identified their needs, difficulties and possibilities either personal, professional or educational, hoping to meet the feasibility of working with self instruction, without neglecting the complexity of the process itself. The majority of the limits identified what are, psychological, social psychology, sociological, economic, politic and cultural, belong to the category proposed by JOSSO. The methodological applied to this work, was on its own right, an instrument of reflection for the teachers, who had an opportunity to recall and see themselves, understand better their graduation and professional paths, and be aware of the breaking point situations they had and still have to face, and the solutions discovered or desired to face them as well