Quem é você, professor? O que pretendemos conhecer quando pesquisamos histórias de vida de professores e professoras?

Abstract

From a postmodern perspective, the study seeks to understand the mode of research with histories of life from male and female teachers. For this, the work discusses polysemy which strains the concept of identity, making links to understand the identitary teacher constitution and finally, examines epistemological and methodological issues concerning the mode of inquiry. This is a bibliographic search, the exploratory type, the theoretical/textual mode. The collected data is based on the literature related to the primary and secondary relevant to the topic. Locating identity in postmodernity, it is possible to say that it is a continuous process of being in the world, and every person is able to accept different identities at different times. As well as the subject´s identity is not monolithic, the identity of the teacher is also related to the multifaceted aspects that create multiple identities that differ from the notion of profile or professional role. The identity of teachers, then, can be considered a combination of his biography, cultural and social influences and institutional values, and also can change as the roles played and the circumstances. In the context of postmodernism as a research paradigm, teachers who tell their own life stories, no longer objects to subjects, authors reframe their trajectories along the research process. Thus research procedures, rely on the subjectivity of the narrator and who investigates them, and they are directed to the understanding others, their context and the meaning of lived experience that is created by the other.