“IT WAS AT THIS MOMENT THAT I FELT MYSELF TO BE MORE TEACHER”: NARRATIVES ABOUT INTERNSHIPS IN TEACHER EDUCATION IN BRAZIL AND PORTUGAL

The current research is developed in Portugal and in Brazil within the scope of an inter-institutional investigation aimed to reveal, reflect, discuss and analyze how the period of internship for future teachers is developed, in the context of these two countries. Relying on the qualitative approach, our research adopted the narratives of the trainees, seeking, in the (auto) biographical method, theoretical subsidies for the analysis, complemented with documental analysis. The subjects of our research, drawn to this group are six trainees. The first results of the research showed that the internships offered in the training courses, in Brazil and Portugal, allowed the subjects to better understand some aspects of the experiences of the teaching profession, even in a short time period. The subjects in this phase of training were able to glimpse that teaching, as a profession, is developed in a social, political and educational-investigative dimension, since future professionals involved themselves in the issues of the school and of the teaching career, experiencing the social and political crises that involve the routines of their job. Those experiences and constructions of knowledge about the profession, in the internship, allowed the future teachers to realize the development of the constitution of teaching identity, when they narrated that it was in this period of the course that they felt more of a teacher.