A dinâmica de ações extensionistas na formação continuada de professores municipais de Santa Maria/RS: a tessitura de processos formativos

Abstract

This study aims at the university extension within the continuing formation for elementary education teachers. This way, the investigation has brought a profile in relation to the university extentionist actions done in the education field, within the continuing formation of teachers, specifically the extension projects. Under this perspective, the guiding problematic of the thesis has questioned how it is established the dynamics of university extensionist actions within the formation processes of municipal teachers in Santa Maria/RS from the relationship network between the university and the school. In order to understand such problematic, the general objective was to comprehend the extensionist dynamics within the formation process of municipal teachers in Santa Maria/RS. As specific objectives, getting to know how the university extension actions are streamlined in two schools from the Municipal Education System in Santa Maria/RS; identifying which are the conceptions of city teachers about the university extensionist actions; and analyzing how the extensionist activities imply in the continuing formation of teachers in the municipal schools. The investigative study was directed to the principles of qualitative narrative research within social-cultural aspects. This way, there have been eleven teachers from two schools researched and two university professors who were the coordinators in the extension projects taking part. The research has made it possible to highlight the dynamics happening in the extensionist activity while being built from the emergency in the university-school interaction and the university study activity which have developed in an inter-related way, spread through the dimension of the university autonomy. Therefore, this formation dynamics has constituted into inter and auto formation processes. The relationship reciprocity between university and school has generated auto formation in teaching learning processes, emerging as source of the collaborative culture. We highlight the relevance of extensionist actions that privilege reflection and problematics in the school reality as a way of promoting consolidation within studies and research that contribute for better understanding the pedagogical environment, as well as managing a more creative and autonomous way of being and becoming a teacher in the elementary education.