DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL TEACHER KNOWLEDGE WITHIN COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES: A STUDY IN THE CONTEXT OF TEACHER INITIAL EDUCATION

Abstract

This study analyzed the construction of teaching professional knowledge of Physical Education residents in the context of the Pedagogical Residency program within a community. One supervisor, three collaborating teachers and 24 residents (undergraduate students) participated. They met weekly for 18 months in a dynamic of constructive-collaborative work. Data sources were reports, teaching cases, and reflective portfolios produced by six purposefully selected residents. Data were triangulated and subjected to thematic analysis. Residents developed different knowledge, but the skills related to professional action stood out the most. The formative devices contributed to developing the residents’ reflective, critical, and communicative rationality. The community proved to be a space for sharing, for the development of close and horizontal interactions between different types of knowledge and professionals, allowing the transition from knowledge-to-practice and knowledge-in-practice to knowledge-of-practice, as well as the transition from a peripheral and individual position of knowledge for a knowledge built collectively.