Teacher training in a decolonial perspective: narratives of educators in normal schools

Abstract

The professional training of educators is the central topic of this article, and its study is based on the narratives of initial training experiences of three educators from normal schools in Brazil and Colombia between 1940 and 1980. This research has theoretical support in the so-called "decolonial studies" and has allowed us to analyze the importance of narrative research as an enhancer for reflection and to identify aspects of coloniality that can be found in the training and knowledge of the teachers who were the subjects of the research. For this purpose, the corpus (interviews) was triangulated taking into account three categories -narrative research, acquired knowledge and updating, reflection and practice- which allowed to conclude that teacher training had a strong incidence of 'colonial pedagogy'.