NARRATING LIFE AND THE TEACHING PROFESSION: VIEWS ON TRAINING PROCESSES AND SENSITIVITIES

Abstract

Experience reports are used as a source of research and reflection on the sensitivities and educational processes that permeate being-knowing-doing as a teacher. These reports were produced as a result of the teachers' participation in an extension course. They drew up an experience report based on the theoretical categories covered in the course, based on their (self) biographical trajectories. That said, the aim of this essay is to analyze the experience reports of two extension course participants in terms of their autobiographical trajectories, especially the educational processes and sensitivities involved in the act of writing the narrative. The research was carried out through the theoretical-methodological lens of autobiographical research in education and cultural history, based on a qualitative research approach. Gaia and Deméter are northeastern teachers, researchers in the field of Geography, migrants, and trained at the same institutions. Their narratives show different formative experiences which, divided by their sensitivities, moved them to reflect on their professional practices. In this sense, we underline the potential of experience reports to produce knowledge and the opportunity to encourage reflection on the various training spaces and the senses and meanings produced by teachers for their training experiences. In addition, the argument that the act of educating must take into account emotions, feelings and sensitivities, so that education must be supportive and transformative, lead to reflection on life, work and training, in other words, lead outside oneself.