Ser professor/a de história: identidades docentes em (re)construção em memoriais de professores/as da educação básica

Abstract

This article reflects on the process of build up history teacher identities in the municipal education system (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). The research was made from the memorials created by the resident history teachers during the lato sensu post-graduation course. What does it mean to you being a History teacher? What is the relation between the construction of this meaning and your life story, your education, your social context and your didactic and pedagogical choices? These are some of the questions we intend to approach in this research. We conclude that the constructing their identities involves a linearity inherent in the exercise of narrating one’s own life, as well a concern with the relationships between school, history teaching and society, in addition to reflections on what they teach an how they teach.