Identidade e representação da profissão docente: uma análise a partir de um professor-personagem da literatura brasileira

Abstract

The present dissertation intends to understand the identity and presentation of the teaching professional and, therefore, adopts as the subject of research a character from Brazilian Literature: the teacher Clarimundo, from the novel Caminhos cruzados (Crossed ways), by Erico Verissimo. Two categories have been elected action and language for being analyzed, with a basis on the data collected. From the studies carried out on the theories by Ervin Goffman, Mikhail Bakhtin and Jürgen Habermas in particular, new concepts were created with a view to answer questions about the teacher s identity and presentation. A review of the historical landscape in which Erico Verissimo s work takes place, namely, the educational scenery at the time of Caminhos cruzados, allowed this work to focus, particularly, 20 and 30 decades, as well as to show some characteristics socioculturally built, concerning teachers. Related to the aspects of the formation of teachers, the reflections accomplished, along the research, understood identity and presentation of teachers as construction in the everyday life of the teaching profession,which permits to consider such professionals as a collective and social interaction subject.