Continued formation in school-level Physical Education: from established initiatives to in-between formative spaces

Abstract

This study aims to analyze and give visibility to the places/spaces identified by the physical education teachers of the Superintendence of Carapina, in the state education network of Espirito Santo, as being significant to their formation process. It uses the narrative research as the theoretical and methodological framework, using the autobiographical narratives of six teachers as the source, in a shared practice of research and dialogue with these teachers. The study analysis indicates diverse movements - sometimes single, sometimes collectives - of practiced formative spaces. This analysis expands the understanding of continuing training to beyond of the established moments, comprising the other places of training as much as the self-formative fields identified by the teachers as significant to their formation. It points out the need to think about changes in the education policies focused the valorization of investigative and training activities that have the pedagogical practices as the beginning and end.