This study examines the experiences of two teachers in a public charter school who implement action research in their classrooms. The study explored the key elements of professional development as well as action research and makes the case as to why action research is an effective tool for teacher development. Participants were selected based on having little teaching experience and familiarity with action research. The study examined the experiences of teachers who have had limited professional development as they use action research in their practices. Data for the study were drawn from interviews as well as researcher and participant journals.

Implementing research-based practices in classrooms as a means of increasing achievement in mathematics for all students requires an understanding of many complex factors that influence classroom change. Situating the role of the teacher as critical to these efforts, teacher inquiry provides a theoretical framework from which to understand the importance of teacher-created knowledge in implementing new instructional practices. A teacher-researcher partnership may provide the support system for teacher inquiry to occur. This study investigated the effects of a research partnership on the implementation of research-based practices, specifically considering the views of teachers participating in the partnership, the differences in implementation based on interactions with researchers, and the features of the partnership that supported the implementation of new practices. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of secondary data was used to understand the experiences of twelve teachers who participated in a research partnership among a research-based non-profit, a national coalition of public schools, and two universities. Results from observation, survey, and interview data found teachers had a complex self-perception of their own roles in the teacher-researcher partnership including being a collaborator, a learner, and an agent of change. Additionally, teachers who interacted with researchers embraced the new materials and instructional practices more so than those who did not. Features of the partnership that were supportive of the implementation process included a focus on the teacher, evolution and responsiveness, and collaboration and integration. Implications for teachers, researchers, administrators, and others are discussed. / CITE/Mathematics and Science Education

A presente pesquisa tem por foco um processo de formação contínua de docentes da rede pública estadual da região de Carapicuíba e Cotia com o uso do portfólio, enquanto recurso para a formação do professor reflexivo. Em uma pesquisa de campo realizada pela Oficina Pedagógica da Diretoria de Ensino de Carapicuíba, São Paulo, sobre as formas de registro e avaliação; constatamos que: professores de diferentes disciplinas do currículo do Ensino Fundamental e Médio realizavam portfólios de forma espontânea, para conhecer o repertório cultural e educacional dos discentes. Este fato chamou-nos atenção e procuramos estabelecer os primeiros contatos com esses educadores, a fim de identificar os tipos de portfólio que construíam, se possuíam conhecimento teórico a cerca desta prática e o que ainda poderiam conhecer a respeito do potencial deste material e o seu uso para a pesquisa e reflexão em relação ao ensino-aprendizagem. Ao longo do processo de formação contínua o portfólio foi apresentado como ferramenta de pesquisa-ensino, ao qual se acrescentou o blog, para resolver imprevistos do percurso. Tínhamos por meta verificar o desenvolvimento do processo reflexivo do professor sobre suas práticas a partir do uso das referidas ferramentas e averiguar a ocorrência de transformações das metodologias de ensino, bem como a produção de conhecimento na escola. Para operacionalização, deste projeto, realizamos um ciclo de cursos de formação contínua para esclarecermos as tendências atuais e o uso do portfólio e a formação do professor reflexivo. A coleta de dados compreendeu o período de 2007 a 2009. Acompanhamos, em três escolas do Ensino Fundamental, a prática docente de 15 professores das seguintes disciplinas: Língua Portuguesa, História, Geografia, Arte e Educação Física para entendermos as formas como foram compiladas, colecionadas, comentadas e apresentadas as evidências do ensino e da aprendizagem por intermédio do registro docente. Nessa abordagem temos por suporte teórico os autores a seguir: John Dewey (1965), Donald Schon (1983, 2000), Antonio Nóvoa (1997), Isabel Alarcão (2005), Fernando Hernandez (2000), Idália de Sá-Chaves (2000, 2005), Selma Garrido, Evandro Ghedin (2002), Elsa Garrido (2000, 2010), Heloisa Dupas Penteado (2008, 2010), entre outros. Constatamos a introdução à prática reflexiva a partir da formação disponibilizada. / This research focuses on a process of continuous training of teachers from public schools in the region of Carapicuíba and Cotia using the portfolio as a resource for the education of reflective teachers. In a field survey conducted by the Bureau of Educational Board of Education from Carapicuíba, São Paulo, on ways of recording and evaluation showed that: teachers of different subjects in the curriculum of elementary and high school portfolios performed spontaneously, to knowing the cultural background and education of students. This fact called our attention and we seek to establish the first contacts with these educators to identify which types of portfolio they built, if they had theoretical knowledge about this practice and what they could still know about the potential of this material and its use for research and reflection on teaching and learning. Throughout the process of training the portfolio was presented as a tool for research and teaching, which added the blog to solve the unexpected route. We aim to check the development of the teacher\'s reflective about their practice from the use of these tools and to investigate the occurrence of transformations of teaching methodologies, as well as the production of knowledge in school. For the operationalization of this project, we conducted a series of training courses to clarify current trends in the use of portfolio and reflective teacher education. Data collection included the period from 2007 to 2009. We followed, in three schools of basic education, the teaching practice of 15 teachers of the following subjects: Portuguese Language, History, Geography, Art and Physical Education for understanding the ways in which they were compiled, collected, explained and presented the evidences of teaching and learning through the teacher registration. In this approach we have theoretical support for the following authors: John Dewey (1965), Donald Schon (1983, 2000), Antonio Nóvoa (1997), Isabel Alarcão (2005), Fernando Hernandez (2000), Idália de Sá-Chaves (2000, 2005), Selma Garrido, Evandro Ghedin (2002), Elsa Garrido (2000, 2010), Heloisa Dupas Penteado (2008, 2010), among others. We found out the introduction to reflective practice from the training offered.

O presente trabalho buscou investigar e compreender as táticas utilizadas pelas crianças pequenas nas brincadeiras coletivas não dirigidas como forma legítima de participação com o objetivo de dar visibilidade às lógicas infantis e à sua produção de cultura. Concebendo a criança como um ser ativo, competente e de direitos, tentei, de maneira reflexiva, conciliar o duplo papel de professora-pesquisadora em uma escola de Educação Infantil pública do Município de São Paulo e adentrar por meio de uma pesquisa com inspiração etnográfica, nos mundos das culturas infantis para perceber e identificar as táticas, as resistências, as reinterpretações que as crianças como atores sociais utilizam ao brincar. Procurei analisar tais narrativas à luz da Sociologia da Infância, de Certeau e de Benjamin, que ouso tentar entrelaçar de uma maneira poética, assim como as crianças interpretam o mundo. Nas narrativas, as crianças nos dizem, brincando, suas verdades por meio de manifestações verbais, corporais, de suas criações e reinterpretações e nos mostrando que, à maneira dos antigos narradores, elas persistem com suas culturas infantis lendo e trazendo para o mundo um outro jeito de vivê-lo. / This paper intended to investigate and understand the tactics used by small children in collective and not directed play time as a legitimate form of participation with the objective of giving visibility to the children\'s logic and to their cultural production. Considering the child as an active, competent and a possessive of rights being, I tried, in a reflexive form, to reconcile the dual role of teacher-researcher in a public preschool of the city of São Paulo, entering through a research with ethnographic inspiration, in the worlds of children\'s culture to notice and identify the tactics, resistances, and reinterpretations children as social actors use when playing. I have tried to analyze such narratives in the light of sociology of childhood, by Certeau and Benjamin, who I dare try to interweave in a poetic way, just as children interpret the world. In the narrative, children tell us, by playing, its truths through verbal and body manifestations, of their creations and reinterpretations and showing us that, in the manner of ancient storytellers, they persist with their childrens cultures reading and bringing to the world another way of living it.

L’Université se trouve aujourd’hui au cœur d’un impératif social, présumé légitime et incontournable, de former des citoyens capables de s’insérer de manière durable sur le marché du travail, d’évoluer et de participer activement aux besoins de l’économie. Ces transformations, induites par la mondialisation et les injonctions du Conseil de l’Union européenne pour « favoriser la compétitivité européenne dans une économie mondiale fondée sur la connaissance » (2007), se sont cristallisées en France dans le cadre de la LRU (2007)et de ses précisions avec le Plan réussite en Licence (PRL, 2007). Trois principaux axes s’en détachent : l’orientation et l’insertion professionnelle des étudiants doivent être une priorité de l’Université (au même titre que la formation et la recherche scientifique) ; une logique de rentabilité et de rationalisation de l’enseignement universitaire et de ses débouchés doit se développer ; au moins la moitié d’une classe d’âge doit parvenir au niveau de qualification d’un diplôme d’enseignement supérieur. C’est au regard de ces changements que ce travail de recherche s’est intéressé à la thématique de l’orientation universitaire, et plus précisément aux questions que pose aujourd’hui la mise en œuvre de ces politiques quant à leur réception et leur appropriation par les « acteurs de l’orientation » à l’Université. Dans cette perspective, notre attention s’est portée sur l’instauration de l’ « orientation active » à l’Université. Au sein de cet espace en construction,dont les tensions intégrées traduisent une bipolarisation autour de ce que nous nommons « travail éducatif » et « mystification pédagogique », cette recherche montre que l’engagement des enseignants-chercheurs se situe au confluent d’un ajustement de logiques, en tensions créatrices entre utilité sociale et développement professionnel. / Universities today are situated at the center of an emerging social imperative - considered vital and necessary - to effectively prepare individuals for entry into the job market with the capacities to respond to the fluctuating needs of evolving economies. Brought about by globalization and the Council of the European Union’s call for strengthening "Europe's competitiveness in a global knowledge economy" (2007), these transformations crystallized in France through the law, LRU (2007) detailed in the Plan License (PRL, 2007). This law mandated the following three principal axes: Universities shall prioritize student career guidance and professional development (as well as training and scientific research); criteria to measure and evaluate graduate employability shall be developed; and, at least half of each graduating class must meet the qualifications required for a higher education diploma. In light of these developments, this research is interested in the study of academic orientation, and more precisely questions surrounding the implementation, reception and appropriation of these policies by the full range of University orientation professionals. This research is subsequently concerned with the introduction of "active guidance" at the University level. It is within this space of experimentation and construction that inherent tensions foreground a polarization between what is described as "Educational Work" and "Pedagogical Mystification". This research will thus examine how teacher-researcherengagement unfolds at the center of a paradigm shift to cultivate creative tensions between social utility and professional development.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T16:16:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roberta Melo de Andrade Abreu.pdf: 2757469 bytes, checksum: 523e26dd206caeeee746fbfdc962a055 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-03-14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this work is to investigate how the teachers of early childhood education understand the act to research the practice of themselves; and to compare the views of the teachers with the specific theoretical frame. To reach these objectives, we use the qualitative approach. The data that serve as basis of this study were obtained from interviews with five teachers of a public school in the city of Salvador - Bahia. We start with the analysis of the historical context of the investigation, its concept, as well as the ones of the teacher-esearcher. in this way, we explore the different definitions of research on teaching, through the ideas of theoreticians who argue the subject. Besides, we examine the categories and subcategories treated during the practical activities of research. Such categories emerge naturally from interviews carried with managers and teachers of the searched institution and from the recurrence in their comments. We present the following main results from the categories constructed in the process of research: the understanding of the interviewed professionals about the research of the practice of themselves is limited and mistaken. We found a universe in which there is no the exercise of research of the practice, because the teachers are entangled in several seroius problematics, as explicited in our registers. We conclude affirming that, despite the researched professionals do not research the practice, we suggest that this is a possible action and that it is also materialize through continuous formation in service.(AU) / O presente trabalho investigar como os professores das séries iniciais do ensino fundamental entendem o ato de pesquisar a própria prática; e cotejar as visões dos professores sobre pesquisa com o referencial teórico específico. Para dar concretude a esses objetivos utilizamos a abordagem qualitativa. Temos como público alvo desse estudo cinco professores de uma escola pública situada no Município de Salvador Bahia. Inicialmente, descrevemos brevemente o contexto histórico da pesquisa, seus fundamentos, bem como os do professor pesquisador, elencando definições de pesquisa, com falas e posicionamentos de teóricos que discutem o tema. Consta também de explanação sobre as categorias e subcategorias elegidas no decorrer das atividades de pesquisa realizadas em campo. Tais categorias emergem nas observações e entrevistas realizadas com gestores e professores da instituição pesquisada e por serem recorrentes nas falas desses sujeitos. Obtemos, a partir das categorias construídas no processo da pesquisa, como principais resultados: a compreensão dos sujeitos pesquisados sobre a pesquisa da própria prática é limitada e equivocada; o universo considerado é totalmente avesso ao processo de pesquisa da prática, pois os professores estão imersos num emaranhado de sérias problemáticas explicitadas em nossos registros de observação. Concluímos afirmando que, apesar dos professores pesquisados não realizarem a pesquisa da prática, a nosso ver, essa é uma ação possível e que se concretiza também através da formação contínua e em serviço.(AU)

A presente pesquisa tem por foco um processo de formação contínua de docentes da rede pública estadual da região de Carapicuíba e Cotia com o uso do portfólio, enquanto recurso para a formação do professor reflexivo. Em uma pesquisa de campo realizada pela Oficina Pedagógica da Diretoria de Ensino de Carapicuíba, São Paulo, sobre as formas de registro e avaliação; constatamos que: professores de diferentes disciplinas do currículo do Ensino Fundamental e Médio realizavam portfólios de forma espontânea, para conhecer o repertório cultural e educacional dos discentes. Este fato chamou-nos atenção e procuramos estabelecer os primeiros contatos com esses educadores, a fim de identificar os tipos de portfólio que construíam, se possuíam conhecimento teórico a cerca desta prática e o que ainda poderiam conhecer a respeito do potencial deste material e o seu uso para a pesquisa e reflexão em relação ao ensino-aprendizagem. Ao longo do processo de formação contínua o portfólio foi apresentado como ferramenta de pesquisa-ensino, ao qual se acrescentou o blog, para resolver imprevistos do percurso. Tínhamos por meta verificar o desenvolvimento do processo reflexivo do professor sobre suas práticas a partir do uso das referidas ferramentas e averiguar a ocorrência de transformações das metodologias de ensino, bem como a produção de conhecimento na escola. Para operacionalização, deste projeto, realizamos um ciclo de cursos de formação contínua para esclarecermos as tendências atuais e o uso do portfólio e a formação do professor reflexivo. A coleta de dados compreendeu o período de 2007 a 2009. Acompanhamos, em três escolas do Ensino Fundamental, a prática docente de 15 professores das seguintes disciplinas: Língua Portuguesa, História, Geografia, Arte e Educação Física para entendermos as formas como foram compiladas, colecionadas, comentadas e apresentadas as evidências do ensino e da aprendizagem por intermédio do registro docente. Nessa abordagem temos por suporte teórico os autores a seguir: John Dewey (1965), Donald Schon (1983, 2000), Antonio Nóvoa (1997), Isabel Alarcão (2005), Fernando Hernandez (2000), Idália de Sá-Chaves (2000, 2005), Selma Garrido, Evandro Ghedin (2002), Elsa Garrido (2000, 2010), Heloisa Dupas Penteado (2008, 2010), entre outros. Constatamos a introdução à prática reflexiva a partir da formação disponibilizada. / This research focuses on a process of continuous training of teachers from public schools in the region of Carapicuíba and Cotia using the portfolio as a resource for the education of reflective teachers. In a field survey conducted by the Bureau of Educational Board of Education from Carapicuíba, São Paulo, on ways of recording and evaluation showed that: teachers of different subjects in the curriculum of elementary and high school portfolios performed spontaneously, to knowing the cultural background and education of students. This fact called our attention and we seek to establish the first contacts with these educators to identify which types of portfolio they built, if they had theoretical knowledge about this practice and what they could still know about the potential of this material and its use for research and reflection on teaching and learning. Throughout the process of training the portfolio was presented as a tool for research and teaching, which added the blog to solve the unexpected route. We aim to check the development of the teacher\'s reflective about their practice from the use of these tools and to investigate the occurrence of transformations of teaching methodologies, as well as the production of knowledge in school. For the operationalization of this project, we conducted a series of training courses to clarify current trends in the use of portfolio and reflective teacher education. Data collection included the period from 2007 to 2009. We followed, in three schools of basic education, the teaching practice of 15 teachers of the following subjects: Portuguese Language, History, Geography, Art and Physical Education for understanding the ways in which they were compiled, collected, explained and presented the evidences of teaching and learning through the teacher registration. In this approach we have theoretical support for the following authors: John Dewey (1965), Donald Schon (1983, 2000), Antonio Nóvoa (1997), Isabel Alarcão (2005), Fernando Hernandez (2000), Idália de Sá-Chaves (2000, 2005), Selma Garrido, Evandro Ghedin (2002), Elsa Garrido (2000, 2010), Heloisa Dupas Penteado (2008, 2010), among others. We found out the introduction to reflective practice from the training offered.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosemary Passos.pdf: 846677 bytes, checksum: af03c3a21f5caf359c4a396de5582270 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-02-21 / The main hypothesis presented here, in this researcher, is that the knowledge , the use of tools and support for the recovery of information, allied with the normalization of the technical structure used in scientific works, if applied since from the very beginning of any course (college graduation, post graduation or specialization), will be essential to the professor s formation. The main objectives of this work were to present analyse with an emphasis in the importance of the use of technics in information recovery and bibliographical normalization, in the process of professor s formation with the cooperation of the librarian. With the help of user s capacitacion seminar, idealized by Libraries System of UNICAMP - SBU, but created specifically for the educational area; to make a general evaluation about the user s capacitacion seminar and its structure; to investigate the quality of the attendance in the reference service of the Faculty of Education the UNICAMP Library. The research method utilized here was the case study, which provided an elaboration of a diagnosis with approaches of the characteristics of a group of students, about their difficulties in utilizing the resources for the information recovery and the use of the library services. The study showed during its development, the importance to make the professor more capable in what concerns to informational resources, the necessity of qualification and capacitation of librarians to work as educators to the college students, the necessity of the creation of disciplines with a special focus in this aspects inside for the classroom and principally the interactivity between librarians and professors, in order to develop a effective partnership in the educational environment. / A principal hip?tese, apresentada nesta pesquisa, ? a de que o conhecimento e o uso de ferramentas e suportes para recupera??o da informa??o, e a normaliza??o da estrutura t?cnica de trabalhos cient?ficos, se aplicados desde o in?cio de qualquer curso (p?s-gradua??o, gradua??o, especializa??o), ser?o fundamentais para a forma??o de professores. Os objetivos desse trabalho foram apresentar uma an?lise que enfatizasse a import?ncia do uso de t?cnicas de recupera??o de informa??o e normaliza??o bibliogr?fica no processo de forma??o de professores, com a colabora??o do bibliotec?rio, utilizando-se de um Curso de Capacita??o de Usu?rios, estruturado pelo Sistema de Bibliotecas da UNICAMP SBU, mas direcionado especificamente para a ?rea educacional; fazer uma avalia??o geral do Curso de Capacita??o em sua estrutura; e investigar a qualidade de atendimento no servi?o de refer?ncia da Biblioteca da Faculdade de Educa??o da UNICAMP. O m?todo de pesquisa utilizado foi o de Estudo de Caso, que possibilitou a elabora??o de um diagn?stico com abordagens das caracter?sticas do grupo de alunos que faziam parte da amostra, analisando suas dificuldades em utilizar os recursos para a recupera??o da informa??o e utiliza??o dos servi?os da biblioteca. O estudo demonstrou durante seu desenvolvimento, a import?ncia da capacita??o de professores no que se refere aos recursos informacionais, a necessidade de qualifica??o e capacita??o dos bibliotec?rios para atuarem como educadores perante os alunos dos cursos, a necessidade do estabelecimento de disciplinas que contemplem esses aspectos dentro da sala de aula, e principalmente a intera??o entre bibliotec?rios e professores, para que estes dois profissionais possam desenvolver um trabalho em parceria no contexto educacional.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:43:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1148547 bytes, checksum: 270fffb8ed4f3936c14d8aad9387e96b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Situated in the field of Applied Linguistics, this case study focuses on a dialogue journal and addresses issues such as reflective teacher development (PIMENTA & GHEDIN, 2002; ZEICHNER, 2002), the teacher-researcher (FREEMAN, 1996; LÜDKE, 2001), and journal writing as a possibility for teachers to (re)interpret and (re)evaluate their own discursive practices (LIBERALI, 1999; REICHMANN, 2001; ZABALZA, 2004, amongst others). In the light of these considerations, this case study focuses on a reflective dialogue journal produced over five months by two EFL public school teachers in northeastern Brazil, in 2007. The study aims at investigating how the teachers make meaning of their own experiences, that is, how they represent their practice in the fourteen selected narratives through their lexical-grammatical choices. Taking into account that discourse is a practice of signifying the world (FAIRCLOUGH, 1992), and on adopting Systemic-Functional Grammar (HALLIDAY, 1994) as the theoretical framework grounding this study, more specifically, the transitivity system, the main objective of this study is to examine the representation of teaching experience through Processes and Participants (HALLIDAY, 1994) in 126 primary clauses and in 29 projected clauses. Results reveal that Beatriz´ experience is mainly represented by mental Processes, while Clarisse‟s experience is represented mostly by relationals. It can be seen that Beatriz problematizes her own practice, questioning, while Clarisse characterizes and compares their practices, counseling. As to the mental projections, teachers´ representations are constituted by material and relational Processes, indicating doing and being in terms of challenges and (dis)pleasures regarding the classroom and the profession. In sum, on giving visibility to language teachers´ work, research practice, and to collaborative construction of knowledge, this study is a contribution to EFL continued teacher development. / Situado no campo da Lingüística Aplicada, este estudo de caso sobre um diário dialogado envolve questões como a formação crítico-reflexiva do professor (PIMENTA e GHEDIN, 2002; ZEICHNER, 2002), o professor como pesquisador de sua prática (FREEMAN, 1996; LÜDKE, 2001) e a produção diarista como possibilidade para professores (re)interpretarem e (re)avaliarem suas próprias práticas discursivas (LIBERALI, 1999; REICHMANN, 2001; ZABALZA, 2004, dentre outros). À luz desses pressupostos, este estudo de caso abarca a produção de um diário dialogado ao longo de cinco meses por duas professoras de inglês como língua estrangeira (Beatriz e Clarisse, seus nomes fictícios), atuando em escolas na rede pública em uma região nordestina, em 2007. Esta pesquisa objetiva investigar como as professoras dão sentido às próprias experiências, ou seja, como representam a prática docente nas catorze narrativas selecionadas, por meio de suas escolhas léxico-gramaticais. Considerando que o discurso é uma prática de significar o mundo (FAIRCLOUGH, 1992) e utilizando a Lingüística Sistêmico-Funcional (HALLIDAY, 1994) como ferramenta teórico-metodológica, mais especificamente, o sistema de Transitividade, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo específico examinar a representação da experiência docente no diário, através de Processos e Participantes (HALLIDAY, 1994) em 126 orações primárias e 29 orações projetadas. Os resultados revelam que a experiência de Beatriz é representada principalmente por Processos mentais, inscrevendo o pensar, sentir e perceber, enquanto que a experiência de Clarisse é representada mais freqüentemente por Processos relacionais, inscrevendo o ser. Verificou-se que Beatriz problematiza sua própria prática em sala de aula, questionando, enquanto que Clarisse caracteriza e compara a prática de ambas, principalmente aconselhando. Em relação às projeções mentais, as representações das professoras são constituídas por Processos materiais e relacionais, indicando o fazer e o ser em relação a desafios e (des)prazeres na sala de aula e na profissão. Concluindo, ao dar visibilidade ao trabalho docente, à prática investigativa e à construção colaborativa do conhecimento, esta pesquisa é uma contribuição para a área de formação continuada de professores de língua estrangeira.

O Texto aqui apresentado é fruto da pesquisa realizada com o no cotidiano na Escola Municipal Tiradentes, onde a pesquisadora atua como professora do primeiro segmento do Ensino Fundamental. Este cotidiano, geralmente vivenciado como um espaçotempo da repetição e da mesmice, foi se colocando com acontecimento, no sentido dado por Geraldi (2010), o lugar donde vertem as perguntas, revelando dificuldades e potencialidades, sobre as quais a pesquisadora debruçou-se, desafiando-se a questionar o que aparentemente já lhe era tão conhecido. Guiada pela questão: que possibilidades são criadas nos enfrentamentos cotidianos?, observei e registrei no caderno de campo situações ocorridas na escola e que suscitaram conversas com outros sujeitos da escola professores, pedagogas, alunos/as familiares dos alunos/as. Também foram privilegiadas as narrativas da própria pesquisadora, que buscou dar novos sentidos às práticas observadas e realizadas. A tentativa foi de avançar de uma visão crítica sobre a escola que ainda a esvazia de suas possibilidades para um olhar complexo que a reconhece como território de luta e produção de novos caminhos. Entre outros, autores destacam-se os diálogos com Garcia, Alves, Zaccur, Esteban, Araújo, Morais e Freire, especialmente por reforçarem a importância da pesquisa sobre a própria prática pedagógica. Debruçar sobre algumas das situações inesperadas do cotidiano pode ser apontada como uma das reflexões que contribuem para pensar o trabalho da professora pesquisadora. / The text presented is the result of research conducted with and daily life at the Municipal School Tiradentes, where the researcher works as teacher in the first segment of Elementary Education. This everyday, usually experienced as a space-repetition and sameness, was posing as event, in the sense given by Geraldi (2010), the place where the questions shed, revealing difficulties and potenctialities, over which the researcher has looked, daring to question what you apparently already was so well known. Guided by the question: what opportunities are created in everyday confrontations? Observed and recorded in the field notebook situations occurring at school and raised conversations with other school subjects - teachers, educators, students / families of the students /. Were also privileged narratives of the researcher, who sought to give new meanings to practices observed and performed. The attempt was to advance from a critical view of the school that still renders your chances to a complex look that recognizes as territory control and production of new ways. Among others authors, we highlight the dialogues with Garcia, Alves, Zaccur, Esteban, Araujo, Morais and Freire, especially by reinforcing the importance of research on our own teaching practices.