Teacher training in the Northern Region: the performance of research groups registered with CNPq

Abstract

This work aims to analyze how postgraduate education in Education in the Amazon is configured in its historical and political contexts, and its relationship with cultural diversity, seeking to expose the configuration and repercussions of the work of research groups on training teachers registered in the CNPq Group Directory located in the states of Amapá. In the research problem, we sought to answer what configuration, repercussions and identity the scientific production of research groups on teacher training registered in the CNPq Group Directory located in the state of Amapá has been presenting? This is a critical study with a qualitative-quantitative approach and documentary analysis. The methodological path involved: a) survey of research groups on teacher training located in the Amazon states, in more detail in Amapá, registered in the group directory of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development; b) capturing the mirror of research groups; c) identification of research group leaders; d) survey of records of scientific articles in the Lattes Curriculum of researchers published in the period from 2010 to 2022; d) access to scientific articles in journals; and e) analysis and interpretation of data using the content analysis technique. The institutionalization of research groups on teacher training in the Brazilian academic-scientific structure contributed to the strengthening of research on this topic in the Amazon, with repercussions on research production, teaching and extension. The groups are important spaces for training teachers and researchers, based on the premise of collaborative work between peers. The themes denote interests in the field of teacher training in the Amazon, teaching practice, teaching work, diversity, curriculum policy, among others. Such processes highlighted the potential of research groups in training new researchers for the area, as well as their importance for the growth of scientific production, with the territories and identities of the Amazonas as their central focus.