Teacher training curricula: the power of agency in question

Abstract

This article is the result of a research in Pernambuco’s wild area that is inserted in the national debate about teacher training curricula, electing as problematic the possibilities of a formative process to contribute with the development of teacher agencies. As theoretical contribution, it is based in the comprehension that the agency is not something that one has, but achieves, and that the teacher training programs need to conceive a teaching and learning process that allows students, future teachers, to develop beyond the executors of determinations external to them. In a methodological point of view, it is used the discourse theory from an analytical register that negates all presented fundament as last. In this path, curriculum projects of four undergraduate courses from a federal university, located in Pernambuco’s wild are analyzed, inserting them in a historical and contingent. The analysis of the data acquired shows that the recognition of the curriculum as an integrate non-linear space between the training locus and the professional performance, fabricated integration in training projects that aim to break up traditional ways and encourage reflexive practices and curricular decision.

Curriculum; Power of agency; Teacher training; Discourse theory