ABSTRACT:
This study focuses on teacher’s professional knowledge about teaching poetry in the first years of schooling. It is a study centered on the representations of the participants of a continuous training course on the teaching of poetry, for teachers of the first years of schooling (grade 1 to grade 4) in the Portuguese Educational System. The aim of this study is to characterize teacher professional knowledge in the area of poetry teaching through the analysis of teachers' responses to two questionnaire surveys, applied at the beginning and at the end of the training action, aiming to answer the following questions: what do teachers think about poetry and its teaching and what training needs do the teachers display in this field? The results of this study show the importance of the characterization of professional teacher knowledge for the designing of training proposals to promote change in educational practices centered on poetry.
Keywords:
teacher’s professional knowledge; teaching poetry; professional thinking; elementary school teachers; representations