This musical, arts-based educational research describes the lived experiences of four K-12 New Orleans educators who believe that end-of-year standardized tests hinder their ability to teach in ways they believe are best. Using songwriting as a form of data elicitation and narrative restorying, this study documents the lived experiences of teachers who have experienced test-related cognitive dissonance. While curricular narrowing and other test-related practices have been studied in many contexts, the perspectives of New Orleans teachers are barely documented. Thus, this study fills a content gap in the testing literature. Musically restorying the data contributes to the accountability literature in three main ways. First, restorying the data as song renders the findings evocatively — that is, in ways that capture the emotion with which the data was originally imbued. Second, because this study is performative (the results were sung live in the community), the opportunity exists to ignite a local conversation aimed at helping teachers navigate testing/teaching conundrums. Finally, as music is one of the least utilized forms of art-based research, this study fills a methodological gap in the arts-based research repository.

In 2012 clashes between Catholic canonical law and Canadian common law regarding sexual minorities continue to be played out in Canadian Catholic schools. Although Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ensures same-sex equality in Canada, this study shows that some teachers in Alberta Catholic schools are fired for contravening Catholic doctrine about non-heterosexuality, while Ontario students’ requests to establish Gay/Straight Alliances are denied. This study seeks to uncover the causes and effects of the long-standing disconnect between Canadian Catholic schools and the Charter by comparing the treatment of and attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) teachers and students in publicly-funded Catholic school systems in the provinces of Alberta and Ontario. I employ a multi-method qualitative research framework involving: 1) semi-structured interviews with 20 participants (7 current and former teachers and 13 former students), 18 of which are re-presented as condensed narratives; 2) media accounts that illustrate the Catholic schools’ homophobic environment; and 3) two key Alberta and Ontario Catholic policy and curriculum documents. The central question driving this study is: How does power operate in Canadian Catholic schools? Is it exercised from the top down solely, or are there instances of power rising up from the bottom as well? To answer this question, I draw upon the critical theories of Gramsci (1971), Althusser (1970/2008), Foucault (1975/1995), and Giroux (2001) in order to explain the phenomenon of “holy homophobia” in Canadian Catholic schools. The chief finding of this study is that contradictory Catholic doctrine on the topic of non-heterosexuality is directing school policy and practice regarding the management of sexual minority groups in Alberta and Ontario Catholic schools, positioning these schools as potential hotbeds for homophobia. Hopefully, this thesis can one day serve as a resource for anti-homophobia education researchers and practitioners, school administrators, educators and students who are interested in eliminating religiously-inspired homophobia in school settings.

Examinations administered by the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) play a major role in the musical education of many individuals across Canada. The evaluative process needs to be a constructive one in order to ensure its positive impact on students’ musical education. Examiners who are confident and comfortable in their roles as assessors are more likely to provide this ideal environment for the students. Individuals at the dawn of their examining careers are prone to lower confidence and comfort levels due to their inexperience. Yet all music students deserve an optimal examination situation, even from new examiners. Ensuring that an examiner receives proper training will help to increase their confidence and comfort levels while assessing students. This study examined the elements of an examiner’s education, experience and preparation which contributed to higher confidence and comfort levels as they participated in the RCM evaluative process. Ten individuals participated in surveys and interviews. Seven were recent apprentices of the examiner training program and three were senior examiners. Their experiences and insights given in a narrative form shed light on which elements of their background and training benefited them as examiners. According to the participants, varied and extensive pedagogical training, taking exams as students and intensive performance education gave them the most advantages during their early careers as examiners. Regarding the examiner apprenticeship program, participants felt that they would have benefited from more practical experience during the early classroom seminar, additional opportunities to observe students at varying performing levels and more time for discussion with their mentors. These recommendations for background preparation and enhanced training are intended to give examiners greater confidence in their evaluative roles early in their careers, enabling them to provide constructive and effective assessments for students and their teachers.

In 2012 clashes between Catholic canonical law and Canadian common law regarding sexual minorities continue to be played out in Canadian Catholic schools. Although Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ensures same-sex equality in Canada, this study shows that some teachers in Alberta Catholic schools are fired for contravening Catholic doctrine about non-heterosexuality, while Ontario students’ requests to establish Gay/Straight Alliances are denied. This study seeks to uncover the causes and effects of the long-standing disconnect between Canadian Catholic schools and the Charter by comparing the treatment of and attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) teachers and students in publicly-funded Catholic school systems in the provinces of Alberta and Ontario. I employ a multi-method qualitative research framework involving: 1) semi-structured interviews with 20 participants (7 current and former teachers and 13 former students), 18 of which are re-presented as condensed narratives; 2) media accounts that illustrate the Catholic schools’ homophobic environment; and 3) two key Alberta and Ontario Catholic policy and curriculum documents. The central question driving this study is: How does power operate in Canadian Catholic schools? Is it exercised from the top down solely, or are there instances of power rising up from the bottom as well? To answer this question, I draw upon the critical theories of Gramsci (1971), Althusser (1970/2008), Foucault (1975/1995), and Giroux (2001) in order to explain the phenomenon of “holy homophobia” in Canadian Catholic schools. The chief finding of this study is that contradictory Catholic doctrine on the topic of non-heterosexuality is directing school policy and practice regarding the management of sexual minority groups in Alberta and Ontario Catholic schools, positioning these schools as potential hotbeds for homophobia. Hopefully, this thesis can one day serve as a resource for anti-homophobia education researchers and practitioners, school administrators, educators and students who are interested in eliminating religiously-inspired homophobia in school settings.

Examinations administered by the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) play a major role in the musical education of many individuals across Canada. The evaluative process needs to be a constructive one in order to ensure its positive impact on students’ musical education. Examiners who are confident and comfortable in their roles as assessors are more likely to provide this ideal environment for the students. Individuals at the dawn of their examining careers are prone to lower confidence and comfort levels due to their inexperience. Yet all music students deserve an optimal examination situation, even from new examiners. Ensuring that an examiner receives proper training will help to increase their confidence and comfort levels while assessing students. This study examined the elements of an examiner’s education, experience and preparation which contributed to higher confidence and comfort levels as they participated in the RCM evaluative process. Ten individuals participated in surveys and interviews. Seven were recent apprentices of the examiner training program and three were senior examiners. Their experiences and insights given in a narrative form shed light on which elements of their background and training benefited them as examiners. According to the participants, varied and extensive pedagogical training, taking exams as students and intensive performance education gave them the most advantages during their early careers as examiners. Regarding the examiner apprenticeship program, participants felt that they would have benefited from more practical experience during the early classroom seminar, additional opportunities to observe students at varying performing levels and more time for discussion with their mentors. These recommendations for background preparation and enhanced training are intended to give examiners greater confidence in their evaluative roles early in their careers, enabling them to provide constructive and effective assessments for students and their teachers.

Religious experience is a narrative reality, while it certainly relates to doctrines and rituals, it is embodied by the stories people tell which express the meaning of conversion as understood by the converts themselves. In order to enter this narrative world we must engage the actual stories told by converts, making space for their narratives as they make meaning of their experiences and thus open windows on the emic perspective. Sometimes this happens through stories that are largely thematic—expressing conversion in mainly one metaphor. Other times, narratives may touch on many different ideas, allowing us to discern various internal structures, such as some of the factors leading to conversion. Nevertheless, as important as these narratives are, they are only part of the picture because religious conversion always takes place in context. Therefore, if we are to properly understand the deeply personal experience we call conversion, we must frame it within the social, cultural and historical currents swirling around that experience. The conversions in this study are rooted in the religious history of Central Asia, particularly the seventy-odd years of Soviet rule. By the end of that era, it is probably more appropriate to think in terms of localized islam, rather than a universal religion based on the text of the Quran. Not only so, but the once proudly distinct Muslim peoples, now living under Russian rule, had become enculturated into Russian patterns of life, thought, and worldview, a process referred to as Russification, something which had profound effects on the way some of them have experienced conversion away from their natal religion. This study examines both of these aspects, first the contextual and then the personal, through the stories of thirty-six Muslims who converted to faith in Christ in post-Soviet Central Asia. By exploring the deeply personal and the broadly contextual together, this study offers a clear view of the meaning of religious conversion, in a historical, social, and religious context. / Religious Studies and Arabic / D.Lit. et Phil. (Religious Studies)

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The field texts and therefore the analises were divided into two distinct groups: the first with data generated from a questionnaire applied to nine professors from a federal university in the northeast of Brazil, which contains open and closed questions about their training and their experiences in teaching ESP; the second group, focusing this time on the experiences of three professors from the first group who were still teaching ESP, with data generated from interviews with these participants in addition to the data generated from their autobiographies and from the researcher?s as well. The computational tool WordSmith Tools 6.0 (SCOTT, 2012) was used to select, organize, and quantify data to be analyzed in the first group of texts, identifying the types of Processes and Participants through the Transitivity System (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004). The Processes which were more used by the professors in the questionnaire were the Material, followed by the Relational and then the Mental ones, indicating that most professors reported their actions related to the teaching of ESP, rated or evaluated the approach, their training to teach it and their experiences, hence, rarely showing their thoughts and emotions about teaching ESP. Most of the nine professors say they carry out needs analysis, but not all do it according to the authors cited by them or the ones that are considered a reference in this area, such as the ones used in this research as reference. Similarly, their definitions and conceptions of ESP, in most cases, differed from these authors. All the professors claim not having had specific education to teach ESP at the undergraduation. When examining the stories of the four teachers, in the second group of the field texts, based on meaning composition according to Ely, Vinz, Downing and Anzul (2001), it was revealed that the kind of knowledge they report using when they teach ESP is related to their Personal Practical Knowledge and their Professional Knowledge (ELBAZ, 1983; CLANDININ, 1988). In their autobiographies, metaphors were also identified and they represent their concepts of teaching and being a teacher. Through this research, we hope to contribute to the understanding of what teaching ESP might mean for professors in the researched context and also to the continuing education of ESP practitioners, as well as to a review of the curricula in the English language undergraduate courses and of the role of ESP in the training of these professionals / A presente pesquisa tem como pressupostos te?rico-metodol?gicos (1) a Pesquisa Narrativa (PN CLANDININ; CONNELLY, 2011), (2) a Gram?tica Sist?mico-Funcional (GSF HALLIDAY, 1985, 1994; THOMPSON, 2002; EGGINS, 1994; HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004) e (3) a abordagem de ensino de Ingl?s para Fins Espec?ficos (IFE HUTCHINSON; WATERS, 1987; CELANI, 2005; RAMOS, 2005), com o objetivo geral de fazer um levantamento dos sentidos constru?dos pelos professores participantes sobre o IFE, a forma??o espec?fica que receberam para ministr?-lo e a sua experi?ncia em ensin?-lo no n?vel superior. Os textos de campo e, por conseguinte, as an?lises, foram organizados em dois grupos distintos: o primeiro com dados gerados a partir de um question?rio aplicado a nove professores de uma institui??o p?blica no nordeste brasileiro, contendo perguntas abertas e fechadas a respeito de sua forma??o e de suas experi?ncias em ministrar a disciplina de Ingl?s Instrumental e o segundo grupo, a partir do enfoque nas experi?ncias de tr?s professoras do primeiro grupo que continuavam ensinando IFE, com dados gerados por entrevistas com essas participantes e por suas autobiografias, al?m dos dados gerados pela autobiografia da pr?pria pesquisadora, tamb?m participante da pesquisa. Foi usada a ferramenta computacional WordSmith Tools 6.0 (SCOTT, 2012) para selecionar, organizar e quantificar os dados a serem analisados no primeiro grupo de textos, identificando-se os tipos de Processos e os Participantes, pelo Sistema de Transitividade (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004), sendo que os Processos mais usados pelos professores no question?rio foram os Materiais, seguidos dos Relacionais e em terceiro lugar os Mentais, indicando que a maioria relatou mais suas a??es com rela??o ao ensino de IFE, classificou ou definiu a abordagem, sua forma??o e suas experi?ncias do que demonstrou seus pensamentos e emo??es a respeito de ensinar IFE. A maioria dos nove professores afirma fazer a an?lise de necessidades, mas nem todos a fazem de acordo com o que estabelecem os autores por eles citados ou outros autores considerados refer?ncia nessa ?rea, tais como os que usamos nesta pesquisa. Do mesmo modo, suas defini??es e concep??es sobre IFE, na maioria das vezes, diferem das desses autores. Todos os professores participantes alegam n?o ter tido forma??o espec?fica para ensinar IFE na licenciatura. Ao analisar os relatos das quatro professoras do segundo grupo de textos de campo, com base na composi??o de sentidos segundo Ely, Vinz, Downing e Anzul (2001), percebeu-se que o tipo de conhecimento que estas referem usar para ministrar IFE est? relacionado ao Conhecimento Pr?tico Pessoal e ao Conhecimento Profissional (ELBAZ, 1983; CLANDININ, 1988). Em seus relatos, foram identificadas tamb?m imagens que representam suas concep??es a respeito de ensinar e ser professora. Esperamos, atrav?s desta pesquisa, contribuir tanto para a compreens?o do que pode significar ensinar IFE para os professores do contexto pesquisado, como para a forma??o continuada de professores de IFE, assim como para uma revis?o nos curr?culos de Letras e do papel do IFE na forma??o do professor de l?ngua inglesa

Nesta pesquisa narrativa (CLANDININ; CONNELLY, 2000, 2011, 2015; CLANDININ, 2013), eu investiguei narrativamente as experiências de autoria vividas com meus alunos nas aulas de Inglês em uma escola pública em Uberlândia – MG. A pesquisa narrativa considera os termos-chave temporalidade, sociabilidade e lugar como parte do espaço tridimensional da pesquisa narrativa, um espaço de pesquisa criado no relacionamento entre o pesquisador e os participantes. Essa metodologia é baseada em uma ontologia deweyana da experiência. Meus alunos do sexto ano (o Everton, a Kamilly Vitória, a Lowise e a Manoela) e a Larissa, mãe da Lowise, contam como viveram suas experiências de autoria na escola, e eu narro minhas experiências de tentativas de autoria da prática docente. Entre as contribuições para a área da Linguística Aplicada, considero, principalmente, as discussões sobre o processo de escrita em língua inglesa, sobre o processo de elaboração de materiais por parte dos professores de línguas, sobre as formas de avaliação nas aulas da escola pública e as possibilidades de trabalho com gêneros para ensinar e aprender inglês. Depois de investigar narrativamente as histórias vividas e narradas, eu as recontei e compreendi que as experiências de autoria que eu, o Everton, a Kamilly Vitória, a Manoela, a Lowise e a Larissa vivemos foram possíveis porque nós compartilhamos autoridade (OYLER, 1996) nas aulas de Inglês. Os resultados dessa pesquisa foram os seguintes: (1) Nós tivemos autoridade narrativa (OLSON, 1995) para vivermos histórias de liberdade, singularidade, responsabilidade e protagonismo, sempre considerando o aspecto ético-relacional da pesquisa narrativa (CLANDININ, 2013). (2) Nós nos tornamos autores quando deixamos nossa assinatura (MELLO, 2012a; CLANDININ; CONNELLY, 2000, 2011, 2015) na paisagem do conhecimento profissional, expressando nosso conhecimento prático pessoal (CLANDININ; CONNELLY, 1995). (3) As histórias de autoria foram construídas por meio das histórias que contamos e dos textos que produzimos nas aulas de Inglês, construídos na e pelas experiências vividas nas comunidades de construção de conhecimento (CRAIG, 1995; OLSON; CRAIG, 2001, 2002) que formamos. / In this narrative inquiry (CLANDININ; CONNELLY, 2000, 2011, 2015; CLANDININ, 2013), I narratively inquired into the experiences of authorship of the students I lived alongside in our English classes at a public school in Uberlândia - MG. Narrative inquiry considers the narrative commonplaces of temporality, sociality, and place as part of the three-dimensional inquiry space, a research space shaped in the relationships of the participants and the researcher. This methodology is based on a Deweyan ontology of experience. The grade six students Everton, Kamilly Vitória, Lowise, and Manoela, and Larissa (Lowise's mother), tell how they lived their experiences of authorship at school, and I tell my experiences of authoring my practice and the development of my signature as a teacher. Among the contributions to the area of Applied Linguistics, I consider, mainly, the discussions about the writing process in English, about the process of elaboration and creation of materials by language teachers, about the forms of assessment in English classes in public schools, and the possibilities of working with genres to teach and learn English. After inquiring into the stories we lived and told, I retold them and understood that the experiences of authorship that Everton, Kamilly Vitória, Manoela, Lowise, Larissa, and I lived were possible because we shared authority (OYLER, 1996) in English classes. The findings for this research are as follows: (1) We had narrative authority (OLSON, 1995) to live stories of freedom, singularity, responsibility and protagonism, always considering the ethicalrelational aspect of narrative inquiry (CLANDININ, 2013). (2) We become authors when we leave our signature (MELLO, 2012a, CLANDININ, CONNELLY, 2000, 2011, 2015) on the professional knowledge landscape of schools, expressing our personal practical knowledge (CLANDININ, CONNELLY, 1995). (3) We did this through the stories we told and texts we produced in English classes, built in and by the experiences lived in the knowledge communities (CRAIG, 1995; OLSON, CRAIG, 2001, 2002) we created. / Tese (Doutorado)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In this research I recount a lived experience during an extension course, named ―Inserindo o mundo escolar no universo digital‖, about foreing language teachers digital literacy which took place in the city of Uberlandia. By developing this research, I have as a general aim to tell and to analyze the first teaching experience of a young teacher, a new graduate student of a Language course, in a context of an extension course about language teaching and learning mediated by digital technologies. Specifically, I intend to i) Investigate the in-service process of education of a new graduate student of a Language course living its first teaching experience and ii) Tell and research into how a young teacher, digitally literate, moves his personal practical knowledge to his teaching practice. I take as theoretical-methodological perspective the Narrative Inquiry (CLANDININ, 2006, 2007; CLANDININ; CONNELLY, 1998, 2000, 2011; CONNELLY; CLANDININ, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2006; et al), in which the analysis of field texts (narratives, lesson plans and course plan, photos, field notes, and others) is carried out through composing meaning (ELY; VINZ; DOWNING; ANZUL, 2001). This research is based on authors that research about language teachers education, about language teaching and learning mediated by technologies and about personal practical and professional knowledge (AFONSO, 2002; BUZATO, 2001, 2010; CELANI, 2001; CLANDININ. 1992; CLANDININ; CONNELLY, 2011; CONNELLY; CLANDININ;1988, 1999; FERRY, 1991; FREIRE, 1998, 2002; GARCIA, 1999; HUBER; MURPHY; CLANDININ, 2003; LANKSHEAR; KNOBEL, 2006; SELFE, 1999; SOUZA, 2011a; SOUZA, 2009b; WARSCHAUER, 2006; et al). From the stories I lived with the participants throughout this research, I could gather that the knowledge and the familiarity with sites and digital tools are not enough for teachers to know how to use them for teaching and learning languages. My experiences during the extension course and in the Language course, as a student and as a teacher in development, showed me that there seems to be a gap to be filled in Language courses with regard to the education of its students to teach and learn languages via digital technologies. My personal-practical knowledge has showed me that we can contribute to the digital-critical education of our students, prospective language teachers, when we create a space in which they can tell and compose meaning of their personal-practical and professional stories about the use of digital technologies for teaching and learning of languages. / Nesta pesquisa, narro uma experiência vivida em um curso de extensão, denominado ―Inserindo o mundo escolar no Universo Digital,‖ sobre letramento digital de professores de línguas estrangeiras, realizado na cidade de Uberlândia. Tenho como objetivo geral relatar e analisar a primeira experiência docente de um jovem professor, recém-formado no curso de Letras, no contexto de um curso de extensão sobre ensino e aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras mediados por tecnologias digitais. Especificamente, pretendo i) Investigar o processo de formação em serviço de um professor recém-graduado do curso de Letras em sua primeira atuação docente e ii) Narrar e investigar como um jovem professor, digitalmente letrado, desloca seus conhecimentos prático-pessoais para sua prática docente. Adoto como perspectiva teórico-metodológica a Pesquisa Narrativa (CLANDININ, 2006,2007; CLANDININ; CONNELLY, 1998, 2000, 2011; CONNELLY; CLANDININ, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2006; et al), na qual a análise dos textos de campo (narrativas, planos de aula e de curso, fotos, notas de campo, entre outros) é feita pela composição de sentidos (ELY; VINZ; DOWNING; ANZUL, 2001). Fundamento-me em autores que pesquisam sobre formação de professores de línguas, ensino e aprendizagem de línguas mediados por tecnologias e conhecimento prático, pessoal e profissional (AFONSO, 2002; BUZATO, 2001, 2010; CELANI, 2001; CLANDININ. 1992; CLANDININ; CONNELLY, 2011; CONNELLY; CLANDININ;1988, 1999; FERRY, 1991; FREIRE, 1998, 2002; GARCIA, 1999; HUBER; MURPHY; CLANDININ, 2003; LANKSHEAR; KNOBEL, 2006; SELFE, 1999; SOUZA, 2011a; SOUZA, 2009b; WARSCHAUER, 2006; et al). Por meio das histórias que vivi juntamente com os participantes desta pesquisa, pude perceber que o conhecimento e a familiarização com sites e ferramentas digitais não são suficientes para que os professores saibam como usá-las em suas aulas para ensinar ou aprender línguas. Minhas experiências no curso de extensão e no curso de Letras me mostraram que parece haver ainda uma carência a ser preenchida nos cursos de Letras no que se refere à formação de seus alunos para ensinar e aprender línguas por meio de tecnologias digitais. Meu conhecimento prático-pessoal me mostrou que podemos contribuir para a formação crítico-digital de nossos alunos, futuros professores de línguas, quando criamos um espaço para que eles contem e componham sentidos de suas histórias prático-pessoais e profissionais sobre uso de tecnologias digitais para ensino e aprendizagem de línguas. / Mestre em Estudos Linguísticos

This work aims at analyzing and reflecting on the stories of English teacher education at the Modern Languages course. My specific goals were to observe and narrate pre-teachers' English learning and teacher education stories, besides my own teaching stories as a language teacher and the continuous education process I lived throughout the inquiry. The research was carried out alongside some undergraduate students attending a critical-reflexive English learning course at a Brazilian Federal University. I was also a researcher-participant. The theoretical background used to discuss pre-teachers' and my own English teaching and learning stories includes Wallace (1991), Celani (2001), Cristóvão and Szundy (2008), Gimenez (2007), Ifa (2006), Teixeira-da-Silva (2006), Mello (2004), Telles (2004) and Motta- Roth (2001). Yet, Carr and Kemmis' (1988), Schön s (1983, 2000), Van-Manen's (1990) and Diamond's (1991) perspectives guided some of the discussions. The research theoreticmethodological approach I used in the inquiry was Clandinin and Connelly's (2000) Narrative Inquiry perspective. The field texts that I composed emerged from the activities of MOODLE, students' and my e-mails exchanges, field notes written by me during the experiences lived in the classroom, the course curriculum and activities and the diaries written during the research process. These documents were viewed with the lens of Ely, Vinz, Downing and Anzul's (2001) interpretative perspective, who sustain possibilities for composing meanings in the research. In reconstructing the lived experiences, I composed the themes: stories of being a teacher, stories of being a researcher, stories of using technology and stories of English language teaching. These themes that emerged out of the pre-teachers' and my own stories point out to the learning that I, the researcher, and the participants could experience through the research process we lived. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar e refletir sobre as histórias de formação do professor de inglês no curso de Letras. Meus objetivos específicos foram observar e narrar histórias de aprendizagem dos alunos em relação à língua e sua formação docente, além de analisar minha própria experiência de formação continuada vivida durante todo o processo de pesquisa. O contexto desta pesquisa foi a disciplina Língua Inglesa: aprendizagem críticorreflexiva do curso de Letras de uma universidade federal brasileira e os participantes foram os alunos dessa disciplina e eu como pesquisadora-participante. A partir das discussões teóricas sobre formação do professor, de acordo com Wallace (1991), Celani (2001), Cristóvão e Szundy (2008), Gimenez (2007), Ifa (2006), Teixeira-da-Silva (2006), Mello (2004), Telles (2004) e Motta-Roth (2001), minha fundamentação teórica traz algumas perspectivas de formação de professores, baseadas na pesquisa-ação de Carr e Kemmis (1988), no paradigma reflexivo, conforme Schön (1983, 2000), na abordagem hermenêutico-fenomenológica (VAN-MANEN, 1990) e na pesquisa educacional com base nas artes, segundo Diamond (1991). A perspectiva teórico-metodológica que utilizei foi a pesquisa narrativa, conforme Clandinin e Connelly (2000). Os textos de campo que compus partiram das atividades da plataforma MOODLE, dos e-mails trocados entre mim e os participantes, das notas de campo escritas por mim durante as aulas observadas, da ementa da disciplina, das atividades de sala e dos diários que escrevi durante o processo de pesquisa. Analisei esses textos de campo conforme Ely, Vinz, Downing e Anzul (2001), que sustentam possibilidades de composição de sentidos. Ao reconstruir as experiências vividas compus os temas: histórias de ser professor, histórias de ser pesquisador, histórias de uso da tecnologia e histórias de ensino de língua inglesa. Esses temas apontam os tipos de aprendizagem vividos pelos participantes de pesquisa, durante o processo vivenciado. / Mestre em Estudos Linguísticos