MODERNITY: A CONFLICT AND TEACHER TRAINING SCHOOL - A POSSIBLE MEDIATION?

Abstract

This article presents a study about the conflicts in school environments as well as reflections on some of the difficulties related to pedagogical practice in teacher training. It is an issue that should be widely discussed since the occurrence of conflicts is not an isolated phenomenon but involves all areas of the school community and society. We chose to analyze aspects of teacher-researchers considering the involvement of educational praxis with the heterogeneity of cultures and ideologies that coexist in classrooms. This multiplicity of values reveals itself in interpersonal relationships exposing different perspectives on the same occasion. In this variety of positions, lies one of the many challenges of teaching: conduct their work, encouraging the exchange of ideas and respect for difference. The practice of teaching needs, therefore, in degrees, training for conflict mediation, the debate on theories, causes and effects, mobilizing an ethical action and encouraging citizenship. The purpose is a vision of Basic Education in Brazil, their tensions in Undergraduate education, focusing time the early years of this century. For this purpose, is used as a methodological approach a bibliographic and documentary research.