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Mathematics Education; Social Representation; Teaching Training; Mathematics Teaching.
Thinking about how to offer mathematics teaching that enables the understanding of content in a meaningful, reflective and enjoyable way has been a huge challenge for Brazilian education and has demanded efforts from researchers and training institutions. Our study constitutes an investigation that offers possibilities to contribute to the knowledge/doing of pedagogical teachers with the teaching of mathematics. We aimed to analyze how continuing education can contribute to the teaching of mathematics developed by pedagogues who work in elementary education and to the reconfiguration of social representations about the teaching of mathematics. To this end, we developed qualitative research, with a methodology linked to action research since we assume the need for transformation and creation of strategies to overcome the identified obstacles, including professional practices based on social representations arising from the teachers' schooling process. We developed a continuing training course, lasting 1 academic year, which aimed to reframe the social representations of teachers/pedagogues regarding the teaching of mathematics. The training was based on Mathematics Education and the use of its trends and included the participation of 6 teachers from the state education network of Rio Grande do Norte, who, in addition to participating in the training meetings, had moments of collective planning and monitoring of their practices. Data production was done by recording the training meetings, which included moments for discussion in the focus group methodology, and the field diary of both the course meetings and practical meetings that took place in schools. The data indicated significant contributions to teaching practice in which training is based on Mathematics Education and given in a context of praxis.