From São Paulo to Porto Alegre: reflecting the exchange of experiences between PIBID and teacher education programs in search of the training of good teachers

Abstract

What is the meaning of training teachers for Basic Education? What is the meaning of being a Basic Education teacher? How to think about developing the teacher's identity? These are some of the issues that the authors - one in Guarulhos, SP (UNIFESP) educating pedagogues and the other involved with the Geography Teaching Education Night Course, in Porto Alegre, RS (UFRGS) - intend to reflect upon. Not pretending to propose 'essentialist' answers. Based on the experience with the PIBIB at UNIFESP and the final stages of the teacher education course at UFRGS, we observe some of the students’ journey, in the process of their development. The search for positivities and weaknesses in both experiences points us to the search for the reflexive teacher, the one whose action avoids being repetitive and accommodated.