Aprendizagem, desenvolvimento profissional e personalidade docente

In this article, we propose a fresh reading of the categories learning and professional development of teachers in the context of continuing education under the Historical-Cultural Approach in order to show its potential as an integrative perspective. Taking the personality of the teacher as a structuring category, we analyze learning as a personality activity for the creative appropriation of the professional culture that contributes to teacher development, so that these categories are understood as part of a complex and dialectical system. In this system, these categories are integrated and explained with the help of others, such as social situation of development and lived experience (perezhivanie), in order to consider teacher learning and professional development as personality phenomena, in a dialectical relationship that integrates the affective and cognitive dimensions in the socio-historical context of the profession.