Autobiographical learning: research-action-training with teachers of hospital and home educational care
Autobiographical learning. Research-action-training. Hospital and Home Educational Services. Continuing training.
The hospital and home educational service (AEHD) aims to guarantee the continuity of schooling for students who cannot attend school due to their illness condition. As initial training has rarely contemplated the demands of exercising the teaching activity at the AEHD, this gap requires continuing training that considers the complexities of the characteristics of this context, including legal regulations. Starting from the hypothesis that in this context people developed knowledge specific to their activities, the present research took as its theme the continuing education of AEHD teachers and as a locus of investigation a continuing education course, carried out in cooperation between the Secretary of State for Education , from the Culture of Sport and Leisure of RN and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, in 2019, based on the perspective of research-action-training (PINEAU, 2005; PASSEGGI, 2016). The objective was to investigate with 08 (eight) course teachers the autobiographical learning developed by them throughout their lives and systematized orally and in writing during training. The theoretical framework adopted is based on the principles of (auto)biographical approaches in education (DELORY-MOMBERGER, 2012, 2016; PASSEGGI 2006, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021; ALHIT AND DAUSSIEN, 2006; SOUZA, 2014; PINEAU , 2004, 2005; JOSSO, 2010); Narrativist Psychology (BRUNER, 1997, 2014; BROCKMEIER; HARRÉ, 2003); teacher training (NÓVOA, 1999, 2002, 2009 andFREIRE, 1996, 2005, 2015); of Educational Assistance and its legal frameworks (BRASIL, 1996). The corpus consists of documentary sources, oral narratives of teachers obtained through episodic interviews (FLICK, 2009) and narratives written in the form of expanded and published abstracts (REGIONAL SEMINAR ON HOSPITAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE, 2019). We adopted thematic analysis (JOVCHELOVITCH; BAUER, 2002) and meta-interpretation (PASSEGGI et al., 2017). We identified in the teachers' narratives that autobiographical learning focuses on four themes: 1) death, loss, mourning and finitude; 2) know-how in the AEHD, whose main elements are listening, recognizing the student in its entirety, dialogicity between education and health and critical reflection on teaching practice; 3) the recognition of the teacher's ability to train in the self-educational and hetero-formative, emancipatory, action, reflection and (re)signification and autopoietic dimensions; and 4) the teaching practice in the dimensions of care, affection with the student in a situation of illness and that of the school curriculum in the AEHD – sensitive, interdisciplinary and flexible. We defend the thesis that the awareness of autobiographical learning is built through action-research-training that promotes reflection on practice, in a dialectical movement between doing, reflecting and acting (action-reflection-action) in the AEHD. We recognize that teachers are trained throughout life and in all aspects of life, they have an autobiographical capital and access it through research on their doing, the action of narrating generates self(hetero)formation. In summary, it is through actionresearch-education that teachers systematize their experiences and appropriate their autobiographical learning.