ABSTRACT:
This paper aims at discussing the language of critical collaboration in agency development (EDWARDS, 2005EDWARDS, A. Relational agency: learning to be a resourceful practioner. International Journal of Educational Research, Oxford, v.43, n.3, p.168-182, 2005., 2007EDWARDS, A. Relational agency in professional practice: a CHAT analysis. Actio: an International Journal of Human Activity Theory, [S.l.], n.1, p.1-17, 2007.; YAMAZUMI, 2007YAMAZUMI, K. Human agency and educational research: a new problem in activity theory. Actio: An International Journal of Human Activity theory, [S.l.], n.1, p.19-39, 2007.; ENGESTRÖM, 2007ENGESTRÖM, Y. Putting Vygotsky to work: the change laboratory as an application of double stimulation. In: DANIELS, H.; COLE, M.; WERTSCH, J.W. (Ed.). The cambridge companion to Vygotsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. p.363-382., 2008ENGESTRÖM, Y. Weaving the texture of school change. Journal of Educational Change, [S.l.], v.9, p.379-383, 2008., 2009ENGESTRÖM, Y. The future of activity theory: a rough draft. In: SANNINO, A.; DANIELS, H.; GUTIÉRREZ, K. (Ed.). Learning and expanding with activity theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. p.303-328., 2011ENGESTRÖM, Y. From design experiments to formative interventiopns. Theory & Psychology, [S.l.], v.21, n.5, p.598-628, 2011.; ENGESTRÖM; SANNINO, 2011ENGESTRÖM, Y.; SANNINO, A. Dicursive manifestations of contradictions in organizational change efforts: a methodological framework. Journal of Organizational Change Management, Bradford, v.24, n.3, p.368-87, 2011. Disponível em: <http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/09534811111132758>. Acesso em: 15 dez. 2015.
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; VIRKKUNEN, 2006aVIRKKUNEN, J. Hybrid agency in co-configuration work. Outlines, [S.l.], n.1, p.61-75, 2006a., 2006bVIRKKUNEN, J. Dilemmas in building shared transformative agency. Activités Revue Électronique, [S.l.], v.3, n.1, p.43-66, 2006b.) especially focusing on high school teachers and their in-service education, taking as research context the teacher education project, LEDA - Reading and Writing in Different Areas – carried out in public schools in the city of São Paulo. Methodologically, it is anchored in Critical Collaborative Research (PCCol) (MAGALHÃES, 2009MAGALHÃES, M. C. C. O método para Vygotsky: a zona proximal de desenvolvimento como zona de colaboração e criticidade criativas. In: SCHETTINI, R. H. et al. (Org.). Vygotsky: uma revisita no início do século XXI. São Paulo: Andross, 2009. p.53-78., 2011MAGALHÃES, M. C. C. Pesquisa crítica de colaboração: escolhas epistemometodológicas na organização e condução de pesquisas de intervenção no contexto escolar. In: MAGALHÃES, M. C. C.; FIDALGO, S. S. (Org.). Questões de método e de linguagem na formação docente. Campinas: Mercado de Letras, 2011. p.13-39., 2012MAGALHÃES, M. C. C. Vygotsky e a pesquisa de intervenção no contexto escolar: pesquisa crítica de colaboração: PCCol. In: LIBERALI, F. C.; MATEUS, E.; DAMIANOVIC, M. C. (Org.). A teoria da atividade sócio-histórico-cultural e a escola: recriando realidades sociais. Campinas: Pontes, 2012. p.13-26.), characterized as interventionist research focusing on the decapsulation and transformation of school learning, and, in this specific case, organized as fortnightly meetings with six teachers from different epistemological areas, one pedagogical coordinator from the language area and four applied linguists. The teacher education meetings focus on the relationship between participants triggered in the discussions about didactic and pedagogical practices. Based on data produced through video recording, preliminary results highlight changes in the significance attributed by the participants about the pedagogical teaching practices in the classroom, and indicate conscious theoretically grounded positions taken by the participating teachers, characterizing the development of relational and transformative agency and the emergence of a responsive, professional practice.
KEYWORDS:
Critical collaboration; Critical collaborative research; Relational agency; Transformative agency
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