Abstract
This study aimed at analysing the dynamics of teachers´ identity production. Four teachers in their first years of experience in Adults Education, from the cities of Aracaju and Brasilia, Brazil, took part in the multi-method research composed of two individual interview sessions and two letters writing. In the first meeting, an open interview was held and in the second session they took part in an episodic interview followed by an opened-ended interview mediated by object or photo. Afterwards, participants were asked to write two letters. The first one maintaining an I-position writing about being a teacher in adult education; and the second one, shifting to position-other, writing as the Secretary of Education position about the future of adult education. Individual were transcribed, ordered into a single text and then submitted to thematic dialogic analysis and pragmatic discourse analysis. Results indicated that the dynamics of teacher identity production were produced on three central themes: Family, Academic Formation and Labour Market. We concluded that the production of teachers´ identities, in their beginning years of professional teaching experiences in Adults Education, are in transition. It is marked by ambivalences engendered by dynamics of permanence and change prompted by conflicts and uncertainties in the present, and future expectancies related to the continuity of their education, new teaching work opportunities and a significant education for the other and for themselves.
Self; Positioning; Teachers’ Identity; Multi-methods; Education for Youth and Adults
