Learning Communities and collaborative practices in the processes of professional insertion

Abstract

Collaborative work presents itself as a response to individualism, historically marked in the culture of school institutions. The article analyzes the modes of collaboration that constitute the professional learning communities, their relations with the school culture and with the process of novice teacher’s insertion. The forms of interaction among teachers in the workplace described as collaborative do not always express goals, common actions and broader decisions that involve the improvement of practices, knowledge and concepts that result in the quality of teaching and management. The school institution needs to take a stand in relation to these decisions and create conditions so that new forms of collaboration can benefit the teacher pedagogical work.The characteristics and dimensions of collaborative groups constituted as learning communities are explored based on criteria presented in literature, in the perspective of ensuring teacher’s learning and professional development. The analysis of a collaborative learning pedagogical experience in the scope of teacher research and the university-school relationship is presented as an enhancer for reflection, for questioning beliefs and values, as well as for problematizing the didactic choices that will guide teachers practice in the classroom.