IN-SERVICE TRAINING FOR PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE TEACHERS: What do trainers from regional education boards in northern Mato Grosso have to say?
In-service training. Public education policies. Teacher trainers. Multipliers. Portuguese language.
This dissertation analyzes, through a qualitative interpretive study, the public policy of In-Service Training for Portuguese language teachers in the Regional Education Directorates (DREs) of northern Mato Grosso, established under the state's 10-Year Education Plan. The study seeks to understand how this policy has been appropriated, reinterpreted, and operationalized by teacher trainers and multipliers in their contexts of practice. Documentary analyses and semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten teachers linked to the DREs in the municipalities of Sinop, Alta Floresta, Matupá, Juína, and Confresa. The theoretical framework articulates concepts of teacher training, language as social practice, and reflective practice, based on authors such as Nóvoa, Tardif, Imbernón, Freire, Paiva, among others. The results indicate that the In-Service Training policy has become an important space for the collective production of knowledge, although it faces challenges related to the centralization of guidelines, the reduction of face-to-face meetings, and the structural conditions of the DREs. The narratives reveal the relevance of listening, autonomy, and contextualization of training for strengthening critical and emancipatory pedagogical practices. It is concluded that understanding in-service teacher training requires recognizing the voices of the professionals who experience it as protagonists of educational policies under construction, and that strengthening local training spaces is an essential condition for advancing educational quality and equity in the state of Mato Grosso.