This critical ethnographic collective case study examined the process of becoming a teacher in the context of visual art education. This longitudinal study was grounded in larger educational concerns regarding the preparation of teachers for socially and culturally diverse U.S. public schools. This framing of teacher learning went beyond traditional dichotomies in educational research that maintain an artificial boundary between learning to teach content and learning to teach all students effectively and equitably. In order to re-integrate the study of teacher learning, this research foregrounds the transactional relationship between a preservice art teacher’s social locations (e.g., race, class, sex-gender, language) and how s/he makes sense of what it means to be an “art teacher.” Specifically, the study asked (a) how preservice art teachers negotiated their emerging art teacher identities in a university-based teacher education program, (b) how their social positions were implicated in that process, and (c) how their teacher identities were meditated by cultural narratives, artifacts, and practices. This approach eschewed simplistic and reductive analyses of teacher identities in order to attain a nuanced understanding of the multiple, sometimes contradictory social processes involved in becoming a teacher. This collective case study centered six preservice art teachers with varied racial, class, gender, and sexual identities, all of whom attended the same undergraduate teacher education program in the southwestern U.S. Social practice theory of identity, and critical curriculum and cultural theory were employed in constructing a multi-leveled relational analysis of the commonalities and divergences in participants’ self-understandings over time. Findings showed historical patterns of institutionalized racism, as well as complex class and sex-gendered meanings of art. These inequitable norms were reproduced in ways distinctive to the asocial and apolitical “common sense” knowledge that was mobilized within the world of art teacher education. Some participants experienced alienation and marginalization based on their social positioning in relation to the world of art education. The findings also illuminated the polyvalent nature of identity through the coexistence of hegemonic identities as well as counter-hegemonic agency. Implications and possibilities for generating more critical, equity-oriented teacher education and art education research, practice, and policy are considered. / text

This texts examines the potential of the documentation of socially engaged art to affect change. It looks at how it can extend the goal of political action inherent in much socially engaged artwork, particularly with reference to Corrie Peters thesis exhibition: All the rooming houses on my street have had their front door removed. / October 2015

This inquiry, which employed a narrative research approach, critically explored the ethical dimension of hospice palliative care. Hospice palliative care is the profession specifically developed to care for the dying. The development of this practice has grown significantly since the 1980s in Australia, yet ethical inquiry into this professional practice has largely focused on particular issues, problems or dilemmas, such as euthanasia. Although particular ethical issues are important considerations, a broader investigation of the ethics of hospice palliative care practice has not been given sufficient consideration in the growing accumulation of the research literature in Australia. Jennings (1997) surmises that “systematic reflection on ethics in the hospice field is curiously underdeveloped” (p. 2). This study goes someway towards filling this gap. In building upon the Pallium research by European scholars and integrating a social practice framework (Isaacs, 1998) this inquiry provides an alternative account of the ethical agenda and one which has privileged an internal exploration, rather than assume that the ethics would be the same as any other health care modality or to simply adopt a dominant, principles-based approach. These internal explorations were located in the storied accounts of thirty interdisciplinary hospice palliative care professionals. This thesis provides a thorough, textual conversation into the realm of ethical caregiving at the end of life. Several key insights were illuminated. Firstly, total care must be central to the philosophy underpinning hospice palliative care practice, but this concept and practice of total care was being eroded and contested. Secondly, a predominantly modernist account of personhood was located in the narrative accounts. This modernist account of personhood was thought to be insufficient for the practice of total care and needed to be reconceptualised. An embedded ontological account was provided which would assist with the understanding and practice of total care. Thirdly, initially it was thought that there was no common, shared understanding of the purpose of the practice. It was suggested that the profession was “wandering in the wilderness” when it came to the aim of its practice. However, the professionals did share a common telos (aim towards a good) and it was overwhelmingly relational. This led to the proposal of a new telos for hospice palliative care practice centered on the creation and maintenance of unique relationships which would assist people in their final stage of life. Lastly, the ethical frameworks which guided practice for the professionals were presented. In these frameworks it was significant values (acceptance of human mortality, total care and honest and open communication) and relationships (how we treat each other) which played the main role in what constituted hospice palliative care ethics. An account of a hospice palliative care ethical relationship was provided which included a proximity stance of in-between. Overall, any ethic for hospice palliative care must have at the heart the relationship between professional caregiver and living-dying person. The relationships in this social practice, between each other, accompanying one another, are our ethical compass. This thesis concluded that hospice palliative care, as a social practice, has a rich ethical dimension as understood and articulated by its professional members. These insights have resulted in the construction of a new ethical framework reflecting, formalising and adapting the ethical dimension as understood by its professional members. This ethical framework - A Relational Ethic of Accompanying - is needed to help maintain, sustain and protect the unique identity of this profession. This framework adds to the “moral vocabulary” (Jennings, 1997) and “moral specificity” (ten Have & Clark, 2002) of hospice palliative care practice. In addition, it would provide important guidance to palliateurs reflecting on how best to provide quality, compassionate and ethical care at the end of life.

Cette étude de philosophie sociale vise à comprendre la spécificité du capitalisme en tant que forme historique d’organisation sociale et de transformation du monde. Elle propose une réflexion descriptive et normative sur la pratique sociale capitaliste, afin de mieux cerner la complexité, la diversité et la plasticité de la dynamique capitaliste. Nous avons choisi de partir de la façon dont Marx conçoit la logique du capital sous l’angle de l’abstraction réelle, ce qui nous permet de saisir la pratique capitaliste selon les termes d’une normativité abstraite, d’un « devoir-être » qui pose comme fin « suprasensible » l’idéalisation d’une survaleur infinie. Marx fournit de précieuses ressources théoriques non seulement pour comprendre l’abstraction capitaliste, mais aussi pour déterminer les formes selon lesquelles celle-ci intervient et restructure la réalité concrète à travers l’action des capitalistes, en rendant explicites les tensions liées à une telle restructuration de l’existant selon des postulats abstraits. À travers la confrontation de la conceptualisation marxienne avec des courants plus contemporains d’interprétation de la dynamique capitaliste, comme les analyses macroéconomiques et institutionnalistes de la Théorie de la Régulation et les travaux psycho-sociologiques portant sur l’organisation néomanagériale du travail et de la consommation, nous montrons que la théorisation de la pratique capitaliste doit rendre compte de la diversité et de la plasticité de la trajectoire du capitalisme, ainsi que de la manière dont celui-ci réussit à se reproduire, même parmi tant de crises et d’obstacles, au moins jusqu'à présent. C’est pourquoi nous proposons une esquisse de modèle de pratique capitaliste qui, s’inspirant de certains aspects de la philosophie pratique kantienne (notamment le concept d’imagination), tente de forger un concept d’imagination capitaliste, lequel permet de comprendre l’ouverture constante à de nouveaux modes de réalisation des idéalisations capitalistes. Cette conception de la pratique capitaliste nous conduit finalement à repenser sur de bases plus créatives et imaginatives la critique immanente du capitalisme. / This work on social philosophy aims at understanding the specificity of capitalism as a historical form of social organization and transformation of the world. It presents a descriptive and normative reflection on the capitalist social practice in order to better understand the complexity, diversity and plasticity of capitalist dynamics. Our starting point is Marx’s understanding of the logic of capital as a real abstraction. This enables us to grasp the capitalist practice by way of an abstract normativity, a “duty” which sets the idealisation of an infinite surplus value as a “suprasensible” end. Marx provides valuable theoretical resources not only to understand capitalist abstraction, but also to determine the form in which it operates and restructures concrete reality through the action of capitalists. It does so by making explicit the tensions related to such restructuring. Moreover, we contrast the Marxist conceptualization with more contemporary currents of interpretation of capitalist dynamics such as the macroeconomic and the institutionalist analyses of Regulation Theory and psycho-sociological studies on the neomanagement organization of labor and consumption. In this way, we show that the theory of capitalist practice must not only reflect the diversity and plasticity of the trajectory of capitalism but also reveal how it manages to reproduce itself (at least so far) even among so many crises and obstacles. That is why we propose an outline of a model of capitalist practice inspired by certain aspects of Kantian practical philosophy (especially the concept of imagination). With this model we intend to create a concept of capitalist imagination, which helps to understand the constant openness to new embodiments of capitalist idealizations. This conception of capitalist practice finally leads us to rethink the immanent critique of capitalism on a more creative and imaginative basis.

Estudo a Prática Social de luta dos trabalhadores no campo da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) na rede pública de Porto Alegre-RS, nos últimos 20 anos. É um estudo de caso de natureza qualitativa. A coleta de informações por entrevistas semiestruturadas com professores da EJA sustenta a análise dos documentos das escolas; a revisão da literatura busca conhecer os antecedentes, a materialidade da EJA, suas leis, as políticas públicas nacionais e as políticas mundiais. Fui orientada pela “teoria” que guia a organização mais íntima das totalidades, “armas” coletivas/orgânicas, práticas/teóricas, que permitem, à luz dos resultados, conhecer e propor melhorias para a área e das condições sociais (econômicas, políticas, culturais) e educativas do trabalho dos professores. Os diversos aspectos e elementos que constituem a prática social destes trabalhadores levam a constatar que o trabalho dos professores na EJA se materializa como uma “profissão de luta”, desde o nascer numa classe definida até a luta contra a precarização “do e no” trabalho e as contradições que acarretam formas de adoecimento. A luta da professora, mãe, mulher, negra, por ser a maioria da categoria, se dá em vários aspectos: no trabalho, na vida particular, na vida afetiva. O aprofundamento mostra que, na formação destes, os mecanismos de ideologia e alienação mascaram e ocultam a contradição central do capitalismo e se manifestam no movimento, de “luta e reluta”, “desiste e insiste”, do “fazer e do ser professor” na produção material de existência. Os profissionais se forjam na materialidade das “experiências” da vida, vivida, percebida e compartilhada, e garantem a produção física e espiritual. E continuam o processo de “luta”, pois acreditam no ser humano e numa sociedade diferente: o “vir a ser”. / During the last twenty years I have been studying the social practice of workers in Youth and Adult Education in the public educational system of Porto Alegre city. This dissertation entails a qualitative case study. Our data collection was conducted by means of semi-structured interviews with teachers; it holds the documental analysis of schools. Our literature review seeks to know the Youth and Adult Education’s antecedents, its materialities, laws, the national and work public policies. During its production we were guided by the “theory” which leads the most intimate totalities, collective/organic “weapons”, practices/theories, that allow us to know and propose, in the light of the results, improvements for the field of education and of social (economic, political, cultural and educational) conditions of teaching work. The several sides and elements that compound these workers’ social practice bring us to the conclusion that the their job embodies the form of a “struggle vow”, from being born in a defined social class to the struggle against precarious situations “of the and in the” work, and the contradictions that entails several forms of illness. The struggle of women teachers, that are mother, black, women, happen under different aspects due to the fact that they are the majority in terms of numbers: this struggle takes place in the working arena, in their private and emotional lives. When we go deeper in these issues, studying the teachers’ formal training, the mechanisms of ideology and alienation mask and hide the central contradiction of the capitalism and express in the movement of “struggling and struggling again”, of “giving up and insisting” of the “being teacher” in the material production of existence. These professionals are forged in the materialities of life “experiences”, moments lived, perceived and shared, and they ensure the physical and spiritual production. These teachers maintain the process of “struggling”, for they believe in the human being and in a different society: the “becoming”.

abstract: This dissertation explored the literacy practices that developed around comics when two secondary teachers (one AP Science and one AP English) used comics in their classroom instruction for the first time. It also explored the ways the teachers and their students positioned comics within their specific classroom contexts. Historically, comics are a marginalized medium in educational circles—widely considered non-academic despite the recognition by scholars for their sophistication as a multimodal medium. Scholars, librarians, teachers, and comics authors have made the case for the inclusion of comics in educational contexts citing their ability to support the literacy development of struggling readers, engage reluctant readers, promote lifelong reading, and convey information visually. However, the roles comics can play in educational contexts are still under researched, and many gaps exist in the literature including a lack of real world contexts and clearly reported instructional strategies. This study aimed to fill these gaps by reporting the literacy practices that students and teachers develop around comics, as well as contextualizing these practices in the classroom contexts and students’ and teachers’ experiences. Drawing from a social semiotic view of multimodality and the view of literacy as a social practice, I conducted a qualitative case study using ethnographic methods for data collection which I analyzed using an interpretive framework for qualitative data analysis and constant comparative analysis. I found three literacy practices developed around comics in these contexts—Q&A, writing about comics, and drawing comics. I also found that teachers and students positioned comics in four primary ways within these contexts—as a tool, as entertainment, as a medium, and as a traditional form of literature. Based on my findings, I developed three assertions: 1) there is a disconnect between teachers’ goals for using comics in their instruction and the literacy practice that developed around the comics they selected; 2) there is a disconnect between the ways in which teachers position comics and the ways in which students position comics; and 3) traditional views of literature and literacy continue to dominate classrooms when multimodal texts are selected and utilized during instruction. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Learning, Literacies and Technologies 2018

Food waste is a major environmental issue. It takes electricity, water, and energy to produce food, to store it, to refrigerate it, to transport it and to prepare it. If for some reason the food is then not consumed, it goes to landfill, where it produces greenhouse gases. The fact that food waste is a significant contributor to the tourism industry’s negative impact on the environment has not received as much attention from tourism academics as one could expect, given the magnitude of the problem in tourism, neither has it been given much attention on how to handle it. This study therefore looks into ways to alter consumer food waste as well as identifying the opportunities of food service strategies that allow reducing food waste, while at the same time maintaining the quality of the service at a hotel in Kalmar. The research used social practice theory (SPT) and the concept of service quality as a theoretical framework to guide the collection as well as the analysis. The empirical work of this study consists of two phases, where firstly an exploratory phase was conducted to measure food waste from the breakfast buffet and to conduct a customer survey to point out possible initiatives to reduce food waste. The responses and results were then further analyzed to find patterns and themes which formed the explanatory phase, focusing on assessing the interest of hotel management to adopt solutions reducing food wasted from the breakfast service. The results and analysis proved that most participants, whether consumers or providers, already have a general idea of what sustainable food consumption means as well as engaging in sustainable practices and behaviors. The analysis of the results through the framework of SPT revealed that the factors that motivate participants to engage in sustainable behaviors resonate more to sustainable consumption rather than reducing the consumption, which can be a reason for the vast amount of food waste. However, the results revealed that though there is a growing movement towards reducing food waste as well as straightforward strategies that can be implemented to reduce food waste, there is still a need to try and change the fundamental behaviors to become more sustainable in that matter.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work aims to produce a reflection and observation that conduce to understand the functioning of some photographic images spread by the media, which constitute the research corpus. It makes reference to the governments Fernando Collor de Mello, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Yeda Crucius. The two first images was published in the Veja Magazine and the last of them in a student blog on the internet. From this, the work weaves some observations about the process constitution historical-discursive of these materialities, where emerge meanings (supplied by interdiscourse), looking at them while social practices (PETRI, 2010), arranged according with the designation discursive articulation that gathers image + writing. In this perspective, the research investigates how occurs the meanings produce process and the functioning of these discourses that emerge the 1992 impeachment process, in the Brazil. So, the research has by theoretical support the Discourse Analysis of French line (DA) and is constituted by three chapters. The first (Chapter I), approaches the theoretical and methodological principles of Discourse Analysis. Then, it highlights the analytical dispositive and proceedings that mobilize the development of this work. The second chapter (Chapter II), refers to the analysis object construction and also makes an appointment of the production conditions that constituency the object, as the impeachment word, the media discourse and its spread by printed way (also available electronically HTML), and the place that the photographic images are inscribed: the urban space. The third and last chapter (Chapter III), carries the analysis, approaching the linguistic-discursive constitution of the photographic images, considering them as social practices that articulates discursively gathering image and writing to produce meanings. / This work aims to produce a reflection and observation that conduce to understand the functioning of some photographic images spread by the media, which constitute the research corpus. It makes reference to the governments Fernando Collor de Mello, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Yeda Crucius. The two first images was published in the Veja Magazine and the last of them in a student blog on the internet. From this, the work weaves some observations about the process constitution historical-discursive of these materialities, where emerge meanings (supplied by interdiscourse), looking at them while social practices (PETRI, 2010), arranged according with the designation discursive articulation that gathers image + writing. In this perspective, the research investigates how occurs the meanings produce process and the functioning of these discourses that emerge the 1992 impeachment process, in the Brazil. So, the research has by theoretical support the Discourse Analysis of French line (DA) and is constituted by three chapters. The first (Chapter I), approaches the theoretical and methodological principles of Discourse Analysis. Then, it highlights the analytical dispositive and proceedings that mobilize the development of this work. The second chapter (Chapter II), refers to the analysis object construction and also makes an appointment of the production conditions that constituency the object, as the impeachment word, the media discourse and its spread by printed way (also available electronically HTML), and the place that the photographic images are inscribed: the urban space. The third and last chapter (Chapter III), carries the analysis, approaching the linguistic-discursive constitution of the photographic images, considering them as social practices that articulates discursively gathering image and writing to produce meanings.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work it based on an emergent approach, in which strategy is considered a social practice, to analyze a practice that has become common in companies located in Brazil - the expatriation. To send professionals abroad respond pressing organizational need - due the fact of that each time more companies have been launched to the international expansion of its operations. From the point of view of the individual who expatriates, the experience in the exterior can assume different "strategic" connotations, from the improvement of a language to the understanding of the cultural diversity, also valued for the companies whom internationalize. In the organizational studies, authors of the strategy as social practice have turned themselves toward the actions of the people involved in "making strategy", or either, for the agreement of as the strategists or practitioners execute the practice of strategizing, analyzing the interaction between them, and of them with the physical and social resources - the practices - available in certain cultural-historic context. The methodological approach for understanding of the objective aspects of the expatriation, on the part of the company, and subjective, on the part of the professional who lives deeply this experience, uses the concepts of field, capital and habitus of Pierre Bourdieu, that it is one of the authors of sociology that had influenced the "practice turn ", this means, a movement for the understanding the practice of the human activities. The objective of this proposal is to analyze the role of the practice of expatriation in conciliating objective aspects of the company who sends the expatriated one, and subjective, leading in account the interests of the individual who expatriates. In the approach of strategy as social practice, the practice of strategy depends on who is these strategists, not only in terms of their qualifications and professional experiences, but also of personal experiences that bring to play their roles and of the interests that they search. Unmasking the organizational field and practical of expatriation return for the understanding of the objective aspects of the companies in sending professionals abroad; the analysis of the capital forms makes possible to advance in the agreement of interests of the professionals who promote this practice, as much in terms of economic, cultural and social valuation, how much of symbolic value. Habitus, in turn, discloses that it has certain recondite intentionality in the trajectory of the interviewed professionals, whom they had accepted as challenge the idea of living in another country, in some cases, with their family. Throughout the narratives, it can be verified that the expatriation approaches to a social practice, once makes possible to the expatriated live deeply exclusive situations, due its direct contact with a different reality, giving a new vision on its work here in Brazil, mainly when this continues related to the delivery of dependent strategic results of international operations. The narratives had been analyzed by the technique of Critical Analysis of Speech, that it makes possible to extend the understanding of interviewed speeches for "the fondness to say even though" and for "not saying", disclosing how much of themselves they loan to the execution of a strategic activity for the organization in which work. / Neste trabalho parte-se de uma abordagem emergente da estratégia, que a considera uma prática social, para analisar uma prática que tem se tornado comum em empresas localizadas no Brasil a expatriação. Enviar profissionais ao exterior atende a uma necessidade organizacional premente, dado ao fato de que cada vez mais empresas têm-se lançado à expansão internacional de suas operações. Do ponto de vista do indivíduo que se expatria, a experiência no exterior pode assumir diferentes conotações estratégicas , desde o aprimoramento de um idioma à compreensão da diversidade cultural, também valorizada pelas empresas que se internacionalizam. Nos estudos organizacionais, autores da chamada estratégia como prática social têm-se voltado para as ações das pessoas envolvidas no fazer estratégia , ou seja, para o entendimento de como os estrategistas ou praticantes executam a prática de estrategizar , analisando a interação entre eles, e deles com os recursos físicos e sociais - as práticas - disponíveis em um determinado contexto cultural-histórico. Desta forma, o objetivo desta proposta é analisar o papel da prática de expatriação em conciliar aspectos objetivos da empresa que envia o expatriado, e subjetivos, levando em conta os interesses do indivíduo que se expatria. Na abordagem da estratégia como prática social, a prática da estratégia depende de quem são estes estrategistas, não apenas em termos de suas qualificações e experiências profissionais, mas também de experiências pessoais que trazem para desempenhar seus papéis e dos interesses que buscam. O desvendar do campo organizacional e da prática de expatriação se volta para a compreensão dos aspectos objetivos das empresas em enviar profissionais para o exterior; a análise das formas de capital possibilita avançar no entendimento de interesses dos profissionais que promovem a prática, tanto em termos de valorização econômica, cultural e social, quanto dos carregados de valor simbólico. O habitus, por sua vez, revela que há certa intencionalidade recôndita na trajetória dos profissionais entrevistados, que aceitaram como desafio a idéia de viver em outro país, em alguns casos, com sua família. Pelas narrativas realizadas, pode-se verificar que a expatriação se aproxima de uma prática social na medida em que possibilita ao expatriado vivenciar situações únicas, decorrentes de seu contato direto com uma realidade diferente da sua, dando uma nova visão sobre o seu trabalho aqui no Brasil, principalmente quando este continua relacionado à entrega de resultados estratégicos dependentes de operações internacionais. As narrativas foram analisadas pela técnica de Análise Crítica de Discurso, que possibilita ampliar a compreensão das falas dos entrevistados para o querer dizer e até mesmo para o não dizer , revelando o quanto de si mesmos emprestam à execução de uma atividade estratégica para a organização na qual trabalham. / Mestre em Administração

Estudo a Prática Social de luta dos trabalhadores no campo da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) na rede pública de Porto Alegre-RS, nos últimos 20 anos. É um estudo de caso de natureza qualitativa. A coleta de informações por entrevistas semiestruturadas com professores da EJA sustenta a análise dos documentos das escolas; a revisão da literatura busca conhecer os antecedentes, a materialidade da EJA, suas leis, as políticas públicas nacionais e as políticas mundiais. Fui orientada pela “teoria” que guia a organização mais íntima das totalidades, “armas” coletivas/orgânicas, práticas/teóricas, que permitem, à luz dos resultados, conhecer e propor melhorias para a área e das condições sociais (econômicas, políticas, culturais) e educativas do trabalho dos professores. Os diversos aspectos e elementos que constituem a prática social destes trabalhadores levam a constatar que o trabalho dos professores na EJA se materializa como uma “profissão de luta”, desde o nascer numa classe definida até a luta contra a precarização “do e no” trabalho e as contradições que acarretam formas de adoecimento. A luta da professora, mãe, mulher, negra, por ser a maioria da categoria, se dá em vários aspectos: no trabalho, na vida particular, na vida afetiva. O aprofundamento mostra que, na formação destes, os mecanismos de ideologia e alienação mascaram e ocultam a contradição central do capitalismo e se manifestam no movimento, de “luta e reluta”, “desiste e insiste”, do “fazer e do ser professor” na produção material de existência. Os profissionais se forjam na materialidade das “experiências” da vida, vivida, percebida e compartilhada, e garantem a produção física e espiritual. E continuam o processo de “luta”, pois acreditam no ser humano e numa sociedade diferente: o “vir a ser”. / During the last twenty years I have been studying the social practice of workers in Youth and Adult Education in the public educational system of Porto Alegre city. This dissertation entails a qualitative case study. Our data collection was conducted by means of semi-structured interviews with teachers; it holds the documental analysis of schools. Our literature review seeks to know the Youth and Adult Education’s antecedents, its materialities, laws, the national and work public policies. During its production we were guided by the “theory” which leads the most intimate totalities, collective/organic “weapons”, practices/theories, that allow us to know and propose, in the light of the results, improvements for the field of education and of social (economic, political, cultural and educational) conditions of teaching work. The several sides and elements that compound these workers’ social practice bring us to the conclusion that the their job embodies the form of a “struggle vow”, from being born in a defined social class to the struggle against precarious situations “of the and in the” work, and the contradictions that entails several forms of illness. The struggle of women teachers, that are mother, black, women, happen under different aspects due to the fact that they are the majority in terms of numbers: this struggle takes place in the working arena, in their private and emotional lives. When we go deeper in these issues, studying the teachers’ formal training, the mechanisms of ideology and alienation mask and hide the central contradiction of the capitalism and express in the movement of “struggling and struggling again”, of “giving up and insisting” of the “being teacher” in the material production of existence. These professionals are forged in the materialities of life “experiences”, moments lived, perceived and shared, and they ensure the physical and spiritual production. These teachers maintain the process of “struggling”, for they believe in the human being and in a different society: the “becoming”.