Continuing education, development of teaching practices in the classroom and promotion of teachers' health: necessary relations

Abstract:

This article presents an analysis of the results of an action of teacher continuing education in a public Brazilian university. It presents and discusses relations that proved to be necessary between the aforementioned action, the development of classroom pedagogical practices and the promotion of teachers' health. Its theoretical and methodological foundations consist on a clinic, developmental and dialogic-argumentative character and employ the method of simple and crossed self-confrontation, in order to address professional teaching gestures. The results indicate the necessity of actions related to teachers' continuing education, focused primarily on the concrete classroom work, which, in addition to allowing the development of pedagogical practices, makes the promotion of teachers' health itself possible.

Keywords:
continuing education; pedagogical practices; teacher's health