A CONSTRUÇÃO DA PROFISSIONALIDADE DOCENTE NAS NARRATIVAS DE PROFESSORAS APOSENTADAS

This text presents part of a master's research that aimed to understand the process of teaching professionalism from testimonies of retired teachers. These collaborating teachers joined the Municipal Education Network of Belo Horizonte in the 1980s and taught for the initial grades of elementary school. The narrative interviews allowed them to access the stories of teachers and produce knowledge about the profession and teaching professionalism. We were able to understand how the process of building the teachers' professionalism developed. We used Sacristán (1995) and Roldão (2005, 2007) to discuss the teaching profession, Nóvoa (1995, 2017), Tardif (2002), to discuss the specific knowledge of the teaching profession and also Tardif and Lessard (2007) on thecharacteristics of teaching work. We identified thematic units -the reasons for the teaching choice, the family, contexto and insertion in the profession and the construction of knowledge about teaching.