ABSTRACT
This study aims to take the Evidential Paradigm as a narrative research method of teacher training. We highlight its autobiographical dimension, emphasizing the particularities of using narratives as a studied phenomenon, textual genre, and methodological conception. We carried out a comprehensive reading of Carlo Ginzburg’s work, and from his contributions, we point out characteristics of narrative writing in research, understanding it as a conscious choice to look at the past and reconstruct it, considering the options made throughout the process, and the answers found at the end. We take, as reflexive axis, narratives produced by teachers, whose analysis show that this way of doing research enables understanding aspects of social practices that are not related to what was lived or to whom lived, but to how the experience is updated at the moment when it is decided to narrate, in dialogue with issues of our times, spaces and culture, becoming a powerful research and training instrument. We conclude by elucidating three temporalities, present in the investigation based on that Paradigm: time of life history, considering that it crosses and is crossed by research; time of research itself, understanding that the method occurs in constant movement between collecting, observing, deciphering; time of writing, understanding the linearity of a text that needs to be definitive, but opens up provisionally to the knowledge produced and the estrangement of ourselves.
Keywords:
Narrative research; Evidential Paradigm; Narrative method; Evidential method; Teacher training