A Critical Teacher Education Experience in the State of Goiás, Brazil

• Main Authors: Rosane Rocha Pessoa, Maria Eugênia Sebba Ferreira de Andrade, Edilson Pimenta Ferreira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2017-09-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
• Subjects: política educacional; formação docente; discursos de professoras de inglês
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-63982017005012101&lng=en&tlng=en

ABSTRACT One of the Brazilian government initiatives to improve basic education was to create the National Network of Continuing Education for Teaching Professionals of Public Basic Education in 2011. Our extension program in this network was implemented in 2013 in 10 towns of the state of Goiás and counted on 21 teacher educators and 110 teacher-participants. Part of the empirical material of one of these teacher educators will be analyzed in this article, focusing on the discourses of seven female teacher-participants about their previous language teacher education experiences and about the first two months of the extension course. The qualitative discussion draws on theorizations from Critical Discourse Analysis and Teacher Education in Brazil, and shows that discourses on language teacher education, English teaching, and English were problematized.