Vozes docentes na escola das águas: processos formativos dos professores no contexto amazônico

Abstract

Teaching in the Amazon offers a wide range of study possibilities that contribute to understanding how knowledge is built in a space marked by cultural and natural diversity. In this context, the present research focuses on interpreting and analyzing the narrative discourses of basic education teachers, presenting, from their daily experiences and educational practices, an overview of continuing education for mathematics teachers in elementary school, especially their perceptions about the use of active methodologies in a floating school — known as Escola das Águas — located in a riverside community in the municipality of Iranduba - AM, between the Negro and Solimões rivers. For this purpose, I rely on narrative research, using Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA), considering the life stories and daily experiences of two teachers who emerge from their accounts about teaching in the riverside education context. We seek authors who discuss narrative research and teacher education to support the theoreticalmethodological approach, including: Connelly and Clandinin (2011), Dewey (1976, 1979), Freire (1987, 1996), Nóvoa (1992, 2020), and Josso (2007). The study, entitled Teachers’ voices from the Escola das Águas: Teacher training processes in the Amazon context, aims to understand what the teachers who work at this school say about their continuing education and how their life experiences influence the development of pedagogical practices with Active Teaching Methodologies in math education. The methodological path was built through a qualitative approach, supported by participant observation and narrative interviews. The data analysis, conducted through DTA, made it possible to understand in detail the teachers’ training processes, their conceptions, and the teaching practices developed in the Amazon context, contributing to the strengthening of teaching methodologies in riverside education. Keywords: Teacher Education. Amazon Context. Narrative Research.