Teaching, thinking about the profession and telling about it. Attempt (and failure) of an initiative in this regard

Abstract

Starting from the strong conviction that years of work in classrooms are not enough to develop a teaching professionalism concerned with both theory and practice, the author suggests a way to understand this process, which he labels as autobiographical “small pedagogies”, which might be understood as different aspects of a critical approach related to methods of discouragement of teaching workers.

After the publication of his autobiography, a seminar has been constituted along with a group of former students and teachers from different educational levels, as well as other teaching professionals. Its aim is guided by the conviction and proposal set out above.

Finally, the author judges that initiative as a failure due to its sessions not overcoming the mere addition of interesting but unstructured moments of dialogue, with the appearance of dynamics that did not abide the formal model by and did not follow the forms of participation initially established, which prevented progress in the non-institutionalized formation space sought.