Discurso e identidade docente: um estudo comparativo das capas da Revista Nova Escola.

Abstract

Nova Escola is a monthly Brazilian magazine with wide circulation in educational environment. Since it has been appeared in 1986, this printed magazine is positioned as a useful object to form, update and help teachers to develop good educational practices. It is identified as “the magazine of those who educate” and demonstrates to be a fruitful space to investigations in the field of Education. We question how the teacher is identified in the speech of Nova Escola magazine covers. To understand the object – subject teacher – of whom this present study treats and answer the problematization was established, we want to compare two covers of the magazine (116 and 216 editions), which were selected to represent a decade (1998-2008), and analyse the teacher identity in the magazine. The results of the analysis point to construction of two opposing teacher identities: prepared and disqualified. These results were achieved from the Focault’s Archaeological Method which allowed us to observe the discursive strategies of the magazine as a mechanism of identifying the subject teacher.