Interactions and intercessions in round–table discussions: spaces for initial teacher-training

Abstract

This empirical essay, outcome of a pedagogical intervention, is based on the critical analysis of the experience carried in round-table discussions with chemistry teachers in their initial training at a private university of the Greater Porto Alegre metropolitan region, Rio Grande do Sul. Furthermore, it aims to contribute to the methodological and pedagogical qualification of the round-table discussions as a bilateral-relation extension course, presenting the research subjects’ reflections on being a teacher in the contemporary world. The data, interpreted and analyzed through Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) and supported by quantitative and qualitative information, were obtained through dialogue in round-table discussions, based on a pre-structured questionnaire. In conclusion, the conversation spaces enabled future teachers a perception of a critical and reflective training in/by the pedagogical practice, to seek quality and improvement in their epistemological education.