RESIGNIFICATIONS OF THE PRACTICE OF A RESEX CHICO MENDES TEACHER IN SCIENCE TEACHING: An analysis based on Stephen Ball
Science Teaching; Stephen Ball; Teaching Practice; Extractive Reserve.
The schools were founded in 1983 in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, in the municipality of Xapuri/AC, due to the struggle of rubber tappers over the need for literacy among the population. These rural schools have specific characteristics due to their own constitution and their role. Our research site was The União Rural School in the Seringal Floresta, Rio Branco, a community of this conservation unit. With a multi-grade, historical, geographical, and environmentally protected school context, teachers with temporary contracts, among others, we were interested in knowing how the pedagogical practice of a teacher who was born, raised and lives in the region and studied in this educational space and works as a teacher, occurs. The study's objective was to identify elements that characterize this teacher's practice in this school. Through the qualitative methodological approach and narrative research, we conducted semi-structured interviews with questions about school activities (planning for the teacher's classes) and the relationship with the SEE guidelines and materials, particularly in science classes. We used elements of Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) by Moraes and Galiazzi (2020) to analyze the discourse in the context of practice, according to aspects from the perspective of Stephen Ball (2011), seeking to understand the expressed meanings of the educational guidelines for rural education in Acre in the teacher's work, identifying aspects of her practice. As main results, we infer that in the materialization of the teacher's planning and practice, elements related to school leveling, reading and writing, creativity in using teaching resources and materials, content related to daily life, and local reality emerge. The dedication and concern for the teaching-learning process arise from the teacher's close relationship with the region. The teacher resignifies her practice based on the rereading of Acre's educational guidance documents, which she adapts to her reality in the planning of her classes, school activities, the organization of her classroom, the execution of activities, and in the evaluation, seeking to give meaning to education for the residents of this location who recognize the school as a space of freedom, opportunity, and hope.