Teaching training and practice revealed in the memories of lay teachers from Sertão Paraibano

Abstract

This article presents a historiographical understanding regarding the training and teaching practice of lay teachers. The discussion falls within the field of history of education and develops research into the training and practice of lay teachers who worked in the first four grades of primary or first grade education, in schools in Sertão Paraibano, between the 70s and 80s of the 20th century. It highlights, based on the narratives of the narrator-collaborating teachers, the reason for choosing the teaching profession, the ways of entering the profession and the training paths for practicing primary teaching. The methodology was based on the assumptions of thematic oral history. The main source was recorded interviews with four teachers. For lay primary teachers who worked in Sertão Paraibano, the teaching profession is understood as a “vocation”, however, in practice it represented a condition of financial emancipation. In general, they started their teaching practice without specific training for teaching, during the course of their profession they had access to training for teaching, following the implementation of the Logos II Project, implemented to qualify teachers to teach in the initial grades of Education. 1st Degree.