COMUNIDADES APRENDENTES NO BRASIL E PORTUGAL: CONTRIBUTOS PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO PROFISSIONAL DOCENTE.

This text analyzes the process of professional development of teachers in Brazil and Portugal. Its main discussion: What characteristics are present in the Community of Practice (CoP) to become Learning Community (LC) and potentiate the professional development of the teacher/trainer? The proposal is to develop and investigate a process of creation of a CoP (case study), through a space of face-to-face interaction and in cyberspace, that fosters Professional Teacher Development from studies, discussions, reflections and written productions referring to shared conceptions, experiences and knowledge, providing the transformation into a LC. The audio of meetings will be transcribed and posts in cyberspace facilitate the analysis. To analyze the data, we will carry out the follow-up and systematization of the studies through discursive textual analysis to produce categories of teacher knowledge experienced in the interactive process. The text starts from a theoretical reference on the process of creating CoP and the transformation into LC. Then, an experiment is presented at Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Farroupilha (IFFAR) - Brazil, which provided the transformation in LC. Finally, the CoP in Portugal is described with characteristics that potentiate the transformation into a LC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]