THE IDENTITY OF TEACHERS IN REALITY RURAL SCHOOLS OF THE SOUTHERN MATA OF THE PERNAMBUCO

Abstract

The aim of this work is to identify the factors, which damage the construction of the rural educators’ identity, who are not participating in Social Movements. Aiming at the achievement of the work, it was initially done a bibliographical research. The following part was to use as a procedure and an instrument, the data collecting, the documental analysis, and semi-structured interviews done with eight teachers in the rural zone, the rural zone teachers assistematic direct interview of the reality of the work. The analysis and the discussion gave the opportunity to verify the facts, which have been generating a crisis of teacher’s professional identity construction, that crisis which has been associated to the non vinculated practices with the students reality and the rural zone community. Finally, the hypotheses were confirmed, consequently it was identified that the factors which damage the rural educator’s construction of the identity without association to the Social Movement, when it was verified the continuous formation offered to those teachers by the city government, does not prioritize the valorization and specific formation to the construction and enhancement of the teachers identity. The work conditions do not facilitate the process of construction of a positive identity and which there is a really rural educators crisis of identity without connection to the Social Movements associated to the social devalorization of the profession. Keywords: Professional identity, rural educator crisis, identity crisis.