De professoras, para professoras, sobre professoras: a formação (des)continuada e a múltipla jornada das professoras da rede pública de educação

Abstract

This study analyzes the conditions of access to and effectiveness of continuing education for female teachers working in basic education in the public education network of Minas Gerais, in order to understand the conditions of continuing education for female teachers who have multiple journeys, accumulating labor and domestic responsibilities. It considers the predominantly female occupation of the teaching function, and the historical determination of female roles for the performance of domestic work and family care, as factors that restrict access to and effective participation in training and professional development processes, the central problem of this investigation. The qualitative research collected reports from teachers through focus groups, which reveal multiple aspects that emerge from the experiences and lives of the participants. After analyzing and interpreting the data based on Marli André's Prose Analysis, we identified the main training demands of these female teachers, the elements that interfere in the training processes and their proposals for the listed demands. The results indicate that access to and effectiveness of continuing education for female teachers has been unsatisfactory, requiring proposals and actions that go beyond the conditions of teaching work, professional and school contexts, and consider the multiple journeys of women, teachers. In order to publicize the results and contributions of the research to teaching practice, the educational product in the documentary format "Life of a teacher: they for them" was produced, which aims to contribute to the elaboration and proposal of actions that favor the effectiveness and efficiency of continuing education and professional development, to be made publicly available via YouTube, and sent to the Minas Gerais State Department of Education (SEE-MG).