ABSTRACT
In this article, I discuss a one-semester English Practicum experience held entirely inside a public school. I adopt a decolonial perspective (MIGNOLO, 2014) in an attempt to break with colonialities of power, knowledge, and being in the university-school relationship for language teacher education (PESSOA, 2018; BORELLI, 2018), aiming to understand how we live this attempt in terms of three aspects: the way the English Practicum is structured, my role as a teacher educator, and the role of the school subjects. This qualitative, interpretive (DENZIN; LINCOLN, 2005) research was developed with empirical material generated through diaries, interviews, field notes, and email and WhatsApp messages. The discussions show how we started to break with the traditional structure of the English Practicum and how we reconstructed our knowledges and our identities by living and understanding the school as an ecology of knowledges (SOUSA SANTOS, 2007).
KEYWORDS:
English teacher education; English practicum; decoloniality