Perspectivas da formação continuada de professores de química

Abstract

The emphasis given to continuing education in the context of the pedagogical debate in recent decades highlights the magnitude of this type of improvement for the Brazilian educational reality. Thus, due to its considerable prominence in various areas, such as academic research, formulation of public policies, elaboration of educational plans and programs, development of legislation and national guidelines. This study had the general objective of discussing the perspectives of continuing education for chemistry teachers through a bibliographic review. The specific objectives were: to understand the formative aspects for the development of continuing education for chemistry teachers, to present the articles published in annals that deal with continuing education for chemistry teachers, as well as discussions about these articles that deal with the theme of chemistry teacher education. Initially, an analysis of the titles and abstracts of the identified works was carried out in order to select the relevant works. Subsequently, the complete abstract was read. In some situations, it became necessary to read the full text of the study, due to the insufficiency of the information present in the abstract. It was possible to identify the need for further research on the subject, in addition to the relevance of promoting courses with a view to enabling the continuous improvement of Chemistry teachers in active service. Thus, it is essential to carry out a bibliographic mapping on the aforementioned subject, to highlight more effectively the panorama of studies on the continuing education of teachers in this area of knowledge, as well as to develop continuing education policies through collaboration between the Union, the States, the Federal District and the Municipalities, policies that also aim to contribute to the elaboration of career plans beyond careers in line with the National Guidelines.