Narratives: unveiling teachers’ identities

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Marimar da
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Greggio, Saionara, Lucena, Camila Araújo de, Denardi, Didiê Ana Ceni, Gil, Gloria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Signum: Estudos da Linguagem
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/4442
• topic: Practical knowledge; Teacher education; Narratives.; Practical knowledge; Teacher education; Narratives.

This study aims at reporting the results of a qualitative interpretative research on English as a foreign language teachers’ practical knowledge. More specifically, the objective was to identify the teachers’ rules and principles of practice, through life-story narratives. The result was a set of biographical stories through which the participants themselves could make meaningful connections between moments of their lives and their practical knowledge. The research process as a whole offered the participants a fruitful context for reflection on their professional identities as teachers and the bits and pieces of the unknown identities turned to be a bit more known. Finally, this study points out that life-story narratives can open a window into teachers’ practical knowledge, which may mean an alternative to possible changes on cognitive and/or behavioral level if introduced as a tool for reflection in early stages of teacher education programs.