TEACHERS’ STORIES: EXPERIENCES IN COPING WITH EVERDYDAY DIFFICULTIESThis work aimed to understand the teachers’ trajectories in the initial years of Elementary School in the public network of Baixada Santista, in the state of São Paulo, who despite the difficulties faced in their daily school life, build powerful situations and positive experiences in relation to work. This is qualitative research based on the construction of narratives from three teachers about their professional trajectory, daily difficulties and challenges, and the individual and collective ways of coping they find. The three narratives point to the importance of the relation among school, family and territory, the belief in the transformative role of the school and the need for professional development. The collectivization of work is one of the main strategies used, as it breaks with the perspective of isolation and brings new meanings to educational action towards transformative education, within the limits of historical possibilities.
Keywords:
teaching work; narratives; school routine