Constitutive aspects of the pedagogical practices and teacher education in mathematical modeling

Abstract

This article refers to the formative aspects that constitute the pedagogical practices of the Basic Education teachers participating in a Continuing Training in Mathematical Modeling. Assumed from the phenomenological perspective, the research was established from the analysis of the speeches and actions of eleven teachers in two different contexts: the meetings of the formation and its classrooms. The results evidenced the multidimensionality of the process of constitution of teachers' pedagogical practices and revealed that their training needs may not be met by exclusively theoretical and generalist training strategies. In this sense, it is relevant that the pedagogical practices characteristic of teachers is considered as guiding, since they can provide indicatives of referrals that contribute to the adoption of Modeling. The idea is, therefore, that the approach to Modeling be initiated based on the reflection on the pedagogical practice of teachers and not only on theory.