This article intends to reflect on research-action as an instrument to analyze and evaluate the teaching practice. To do so, it investigates a group of Elementary and Grade School teachers involved in a Continued Education/ University Training Program. From this perspective, the text approaches aspects that guide the research-action methodology and evaluates its effects, analyzing them from the following perspectives: the school structure as a work context; teacher practices face to the teaching and research situation; and the habitus as a way of being and practicing the profession. As conclusions, even if partial, this article announces a few principles that allow one to bring new meaning to research-action as a professional training and learning strategy that is able to make the teaching practice more critical and coherent in the search for its needed transformation.
Research-action; Teaching practice; Habitus