Assessment of the frame of social representations through the social memory of primary education teachers. Thirty-one academic memorials written by first to fourth grade teachers as a final work for an updating course were analyzed. Personal reminiscences describe private lives, but they are social recollections in their very content. Teachers were equally grouped in permanent and contracted, largely varying in age, and these categories were assessed by means of content analysis. The results pointed to a greater cohesion in the public teachers´ reports, while contracted teachers were perceptively worried about contract renovation. Instead of showing the social representation of the teaching activities, the reports were attached to the students´ representation, responsible for the obstacles to the teaching practice. The practical apprenticeship valorization prevailed: one learns by working. The academic memorials pointed that the option for teachership is based on vocational grounds, on the educational institution one has attended, and by one´s own first occupational experiences.
Social Representation and Social Memory; Teachers´ Formation; Option for Teachership
