Who are we South American teachers seeking training? Who are we South American teachers seeking training?

Abstract

The effort to reconfigure the training of teachers and researchers in Brazil is marked by the challenge of uniting the fields of Education and Social Sciences. If intellectual production conceals ideologies, participatory research can help us promote teacher empowerment processes. Seeking to collaborate with these challenges, a group of teachers from public schools and universities, homonym Research Coletivo, met in an Extension Project. The forum of relations between schools and the university aimed to articulate research in the school routine. The methodology adopted was the investigation of pedagogical action (PAPe) (Franco 2016) and the results indicate that the dimensions around public, democratic and secular education remain precarious among Brazilian teachers.