Formation by forming: the movement of teachers’learning at the Matemática Pedagogy Workshop

Abstract

The  result  of  the  research  and  intervention project    with    agents    of    the    Mathematics Pedagogy Workshop (MPW) of the Universidade   Estadual   de   Maringá   (UEM), Brazil,  is  provided.  The  learning  movement and    the    process    of    teachers ́    theoretical thought  in  teaching  activity  are  demonstrated through  the  production  of  study  tasks.  Data comprised   formation activities   developed   at the MPW and  their records by teachers  in  the process   of   organization   of   the   teaching   of Mathematics    during    the    first    years    of schooling.  When  the  movement  of  teachers ́ learning   is   analyzed,   the   process   of   the formation of theoretical thought in observed in all    its    complexity    through    the    teaching organization   process,   which   is   actually   the teachers ́   task.   The   movement   triggers   a rethinking  and  transformation  of  educational practices   in   Mathematics,   coupled   to   the systematization   of   a general   rule   for   the organization     of     teaching     and     learning processes  of  schooling  contents.  Agents  may  consequently  appropriate  them  and  develop their    higher    psychic    functions.    In    their learning   activities,   teachers   require   study activities  that  would  con tribute  towards  the formation of their theoretical thought.