Pesquisa colaborativa: contextualizações, conceptualizações, reflexões e desenvolvimento profissional da docência

Abstract

This article presents reflections on the importance of collaborative research for the investigation of learning processes and professional development of teaching. They are the result of readings, debates, research projects of the authors and diverse experiences of teaching in bachelor's degrees and guidance of master's and doctoral research involving the central theme of teacher training. Collaborative research involves the realization of research processes developed by groups composed of participants from different repertoires and with shared objectives. Collaborative research refers to processes of professional development of teachers and research on such processes. For this, contextualizations, conceptualizations and problematizations. The structure of the article involves six theoretical-methodological axes: contextualizing collaborative research; considerations about academics and practical knowledge; considerations on collaborative research and professional development of teachers; collaboration and action research; the research participants building a group that is now considered as an interpretive tool; the specificities, trends, possibilities and difficulties presented in the literature/research regarding the construction of professional knowledge of teaching, and is finalized with some challenges posed to educational practice, present in the item as provisional final considerations.