Threads that intertwine life trajectories:

narratives of EJA teachers in Ceará

Abstract

This article is an excerpt from the Master's dissertation in Education carried out at the Federal University of Rio Grande - FURG and aims to understand the life trajectories of educators who work in the Youth and Adult Education Centers - CEJAs in Ceará, the reasons for entering teaching and the factors that contributed to the construction of the educator subject. The study sought to give visibility to the narratives of teaching trajectories, using narrative interviews. Theoretical foundations were laid by Nóvoa (1992), Huberman (2000) and Tardif and Raymond (2000), who affirmed that various stages in the life of the "person teacher" have a strong influence on teaching practice. As a result, we identified narratives that carry unique stories, but which, at the same time, are permeated, like the interwoven threads of a ball of yarn, by a variety of contexts, memories and identities. These narratives, when entangled, resulted in compositions that express representations, meanings and knowledge.