Challenges in the training of researchers in professional practice

Abstract

This paper addresses a type of action research focused on professional practice, which has been developed by graduate students attending a professional master course in education: teacher educators. It is a type of research that consists of a critical analysis of the professional practice of the teacher educators, based on the reasoned critical reflection and the use of systematic procedures of data production, that makes possible the revision and improvement of this practice. The report of one of the papers, defended at the end of the course was selected to better illustrate the proposition. It is an action research developed by a school principal in a public school located in a city of São Paulo that involved a teacher education process in collaboration with teachers. Five meetings were held and the topic chosen by the seven teachers who composed the group was school indiscipline. The analysis of the records of the meetings was shared with the group and from the discussions an action plan was prepared to respond to the problem of indiscipline in the school unit.