A nossa responsabilidade é muito grande...: linguagem, representações e formação de docentes no sudoeste paranaense

Abstract

Some studies on Portuguese language teachers‘ representations about language and its teaching have been conducted in south-west Paraná (SANTOS, 2010; KESSLER, 2015; CLEIN, 2018, among others). However, few are those which aimed at with in-service teachers and even rarer those which discuss this at the vocational level. Thus, given the gap observed in academic research, we aim, in this monographic study, to identify a Portuguese Language Methodology teacher‘s representations on language and Portuguese language teaching who acts in a teacher technical course offered at the vocational level by the Secretaria de Estado da Educação do Estado do Paraná. Therefore, we assume a qualitative research position (GIL, 2008) and privilege the ethnographic case study (ERICKSON, 2001; ANDRÉ, 2005). The analytical corpus we analyze here was generated from three distinct sources: questionnaire application, eight classrooms audio recordings and a field diary notes. The theoretical contributions to the linguistic and discursive analysis of the data come from the fields of Linguistics (SOARES, 2004; ROJO, 2008; ORLANDI, 2011; among others), Cultural Studies (HALL, 1997; BHABHA, 1998; WOODWARD, 2012; HALL; 2016), Historical Materialism (ALTHUSSER, 1970; CHAUÍ, 1980) and Education (LIBÂNEO, 2012a; 2012b). The result of the analysis shows that the participant teacher assumes innumerable theoretical positions in relation to the language, the teaching of Portuguese language and teachers pre-service education, that often do not match the positions defended by the teaching work orienting documents (BRASIL, 1998; 2016; PARANÁ, 2008; 2014). In other words, the results obtained here, as well as the results obtained by Clein (2018), allow us to conclude that the contemporary teacher is a subject affected by many aspects and is in an in-between place (BHABHA, 1998). We hope that the results obtained by this research contribute to: i) the reflection of public school teachers (for both the participant teacher and other language teachers); ii) future Applied Linguistics research conducted in south-west Paraná; and iii) possible future reformulations of the course we analyzed here.