The Field of Teaching Practice in a Pandemic: An Anthology of Discussions on Initial Teacher Training

Abstract

The concerns and questions raised in pandemic, in a group of teachers of the subject Field of Teaching Practice, found their expression in a series of questions that, put in dialogue, among teachers and students, gave rise to a flow of motivating ideas which drive to writing. This text, in which parts of the stories written by some of their protagonists become legible, is the result and expression of that flow of thoughts and feelings.Faced with the unknown scenario that the pandemic installed in classrooms, the most widespread and shared assumptions about practices lost their typical scene and with it, certain meanings and constructed certainties. The contrasts in the voices show interests and concerns in the eager search to find answers related to training.Thus, the writing reflects how it is installed in the professional work of these teachers, a pedagogy of the question while we are facing a scenario in which to create knowledge from practice to transform it, that is, theorize from experience as a catalytic process, demands to strengthen the conversation. Asking how to do with the training of teacher practitioners in the face of such a broad, heterogeneous and undefined educational panorama, renews a possibility, for those who train in the practice of educating, to reactivate fundamental questions: What other forms are the acquiring contents to teach and the living spaces? What other forms of relationship are reconfigured so that pedagogical continuity is possible? Do we already know how to name what is being done?This work brings the reflections of the educational doing in the training of teachers in unprecedented scenarios, thinking about and doing, situated and typical of this moment in which the road is made by walking.