Semear-se (em) um campo de dilemas: uma autoetnografia de um professor de educação física principiante na zona rural de Ivoti/RS

Abstract

The study focused on the first two years of my career as a Physical Education teacher in the rural area of the city of Ivoti/RS. The approach stems from the concerns experienced by me during the construction of the Political-pedagogical Project (PPP) for the school in which i began my teacher career in 2010. With the construction of this document, the school aimed to pedagogically guide the principles of Rural Education. My urban culture, contrast with the rural Ivoti – German colonizated region – increased the effects of the so-called “reality shock” (TARDIF, 2002) and the conflicting dilemmas (ZABALZA, 1994), characteristic of this stage of the teaching career. In order of attend those feelings, I was decided, a theoreticalmethodological auto-ethnographic design, where the researcher itself is the subject which makes the action (CHANG, 2008; SPRY, 2001; ELLIS, 2004). Thus, the aim of the research is to understand what the challenges to the construction of the teaching of Physical Education in the rural areas are, starting from a reflection over my training path and the process of construction of the Political-educational project for the rural schools in Ivoti/RS. The research is supported by theorists who understand the construction of social identities such as procedural and negotiated (LAHIRE, 2002; DUBAR, 2005), and in critical perspectives of teaching and learning of Physical Education (BETTI, 2009; DAOLIO, 1995). The evidence produced was collected and organized whereof the field logbooks autobiographical narratives and ethnographic observations. The data was grouped into three categories that metaphorically refer to the main stages of the cultivation of land, explored during this study in a self-referential matter: seeding, cultivating, and harvest. The first describes the teacher who is inserted into the context of the school community, the second category describes the interpersonal and professional relationships of this teacher in the context of the school and community, the third category records the learnings acquired during this experience. Regarding the nature of the data, the first category is focused on the autobiography, while the second and the third, the notes and field diaries. The approaching of the subject with new theoretical contributions, especially the sociology of absences and emergencies from Boaventura Santos, enabled him to unleash differences between local and foreigner teachers in respect to the schools PPP. Empower yourself, then, to assume as a cosmopolitan intellectual (SANTOS, 2010), aiming to make both premises dialoguing through a translation work. The study concludes among other things: a) that teaching requires (self) continuing education as a way to solve problems related with the profession; b) that beginning teachers and the schools themselves are fields of dilemmas, that impact the teaching and the construction of local policies; c) that is still a challenge for teachers and managers of this school, the valorization of local cultural heritage without compromising the plurality and the increased knowledge of the world; d) that Physical Education, in this context can, rather than try to follow an official theoretical-methodological way (RODRIGUES; BRACHT, 2010), to produce and understand the local culture as a strategy to increase interest to students and the PPP schools.