Dialogues among teachers in/about virtual continued formation: provisional and unfinished meanings in the Facebook

• Autor(a) principal: Paniago, Maria Cristina Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHumanSocSci/article/view/23429
• topic: virtual indigenous teaching formation; dialogues in social network; interculturality; formação docente indígena; diálogos em rede social; interculturalidade; Formação de Professores

Current paper is a section of a larger research work to analyze the constructed dialogues among teachers in/about continuous virtual formation. Indigenous teachers from the Terena ethnicity and professors/students researchers belonging to a private University in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, make up the participating research group. Continuous education started some two years ago in the classroom and on the web. Exchanges made on the social network Facebook are focused in current paper. It should be underscored that dialogues are not always characterized by agreements and consensus, but by differences, resistance, reflections, constructions and deconstructions. They are the wealth of an intercultural group since chaos and disequilibrium may be understood as a critical perspective of the (re)constructing of other possibilities of knowledge. Data show the necessity for researchers to listening more, to being influenced by surrounding factors whilst, at the same time, others are affected. Besides, the importance of understanding established meanings with regard to continuous education as provisional and unfinished, in permanent movement, should be foregrounded.