The Academic Agenda on Training Teachers in Brazil

Abstract

Considering the importance of the movements on teacher training in Brazil, the text seeks to map the academic agenda or the scientific literature on the subject. To do so, it is based in a longitudinal survey on the main trends of research in the area of teacher training over the first fifteen years of the 21st century (2001-2015), locating and examining 142 scientific articles published in recognized Brazilian journals in the educational area. It describes aspects of form and content of those articles, indicating how the national scientific production has behaved on the subject. It concludes that there are gaps in the studies, such as teacher training for early childhood education and acting in private schools, as well as the existence of a gap regarding the theoretical references used.