This article discusses issues related to teacher training, with emphasis on continuing education, based on the analysis of Targets 15 and 16 of the National Education Plan - PNE 2014-2024, appended to Law 13005/14, showing the influence of LDB 9.394/96 (the law that regulates Education in Brazil), the National Curricular Guidelines for the Formation of Basic Education Teachers in upper level undergraduate programs, full degree, and the National Network of Continuing Teacher Education. Our analysis is anchored on the assumption that continuing education is a necessary condition in the training process throughout a career, but not enough for the full exercise of teaching given by an initial quality training. We argue that the teaching work should guarantee the teacher's autonomy in his/her teaching practices, aimed at intellectual, cultural and scientific development, of an emancipatory nature, in search of overcoming the dualistic and economic conception of education.
Continuing education; PNE; Educational policies; Teaching activity