Construção da identidade profissional docente em diferentes fases da carreira: percepção de professores de ciências naturais/biologia em Cruz das Almas - BA

Abstract

The professional identity is constituted throughout the career, in spite of assuming individual characteristics for each subject, the teacher's life history has influence on the interprofessional and institutional relations that are established. The understanding of the career and the constitution of the professional identity from the temporal perspective assigns to the different moments of the career the classification in stages. In this sense, the objective of this research was to investigate the conceptions and factors that are related to the process of construction of the professional identity from the perspective of teachers of Natural Sciences and Biology of the municipality of Cruz das Almas-BA, who are in different stages / phases of the teaching career. This research is based on the theoretical contributions of authors such as Tardif (2002) Huberman (2000), Pimenta (1996), Freire (2004) Nóvoa (1992) among others, in discussing the problems that involve the formation of professional identity and its facts influences during the acquisition of experiences in teaching. The approach of the study is qualitative of autobiographical type with the use of the following data collection instruments: narrative interview and Free Word Association Test (TALP). In relation to the data analysis, this was done through the content analysis methodology of Bardin (2009). The results of this research indicate characteristics acquired by professionals as they progress in the career and position the participants in their distinct phases, listing some determinant factors for this classification as: perception about teaching, satisfaction ideals, levels of motivation, mode of identification with profession and so on. These issues are highlighted within the narrative of each participant and are amplified as the experiences make points of encounter with each other and with the biography of the researcher. The narratives and experiences that emerged from it emphasize the need to highlight the teacher's speech and to pay attention to the importance of the process of construction of professional identity as belonging to every teacher's walk, so it must appear from the entrance in the formation up to the end of the career.