Imaginário social e educação: nos labirintos da formação inicial de professores ; Social imaginary and education: into the mazes of teachers initial formation

This doctoral thesis in Education was developed in the Line of Research 1 – Formation, Knowledge and Professional Development of the Graduation Program in Education at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM). The starting point for it was the formative background of the author in the Study and Research Group on Education and Social Imaginary GEPEIS and an academic curiosity on which are the imaginaries about education, school, being a teacher, being a student, and also the teaching praxis that the undergraduate students at final semesters in education courses at UFSM took. There is also a search on how the initial formation courses contribute to the change/maintaining of this imaginaries and the existent school structure. The general aim of the research was to dialogue with the imaginaries of final semesters scholars at UFSM education undergraduate courses about education in a constitutive perspective, in order to understand the way this initial formation courses contribute to the change/maintaining of this imaginaries and the existent school structure. The research theoretic basis is the Social Imaginary of Cornélius Castoriadis (1982). In this study, the concepts of radical imaginary, creation, imaginary significations, magma, symbolic, social imaginary, identity-conjunctive logic, imaginary institutions, instituted social imaginary, society, subjectivity, heteronomy and autonomy. The methodology was created by the author specially to this research, and it is called Kaleidoscope Method. The method was inspired on Edgar Morin's (2013) work and in the optical device kaleidoscope. It consists in working with several data building tools which combine and recombine among themselves through the investigation, looking for possible ways to achieve the research objectives. A socio-imaginary questionnaire and, a Document Analysis of each of the UFSM's twenty two education courses took place. Also, there were Cross Talks, conversation groups with final semester classes about the topics of research. Data were analyzed ...