Em formulção
Pedagogues at IFRN. Pedagogical Coordination. Mediation Action. Comprehensive Interview
This study aims to understand the senses attributed by pedagogues to their professional
practices. As an initial question, we seek to answer the foIlowing inquiry: what are the senses
attributed by pedagogues to their practices at IFRN? ln order to guide the analysis, we assume
that the attributed senses to their mediation actions are institutional, complex and created
individualIy and colIectively. They are constituted that way to achieve quality at the
pedagogical and educational work at Instituto Pederal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Rio
Grande do Norte (IFRN), which could be translated as Federal Institute ofEducation, Science
and Technology ofRio Grande do Norte, in Brazil. Regarding to discuss relevant concepts, we
consider that the referred debates occur at an educational scenery of issues related to the
Pedagogy as Educational Science, the role ofpedagogues at schools and their own professional
identity at the pedagogical coordination, as welI their education and work. We have chosen as
investigation subjects six pedagogues who work at different institutional departments by
considering their institutionalattributions and their daily work when seeking for senses. We
have used the Comprehensive Interview as methodological approach, which aims to reveal the
study object through the subjects' speech. Therefore, we believe that this research wilI be able
to contribute with the reflection about the studied professional at school contexts, at Brazilian
Federal Institutes and, specificalIy, at IFRN.