Formação continuada de professores do ensino secundário em Liquiçá, Timor-Leste

Abstract

Investigates the continuing education of teachers of public secondary education in Liquica in East Timor, aiming to contextualize the speeches, expectations and reality of teacher training in the country. Conceptually discusses teacher training, discuss their regulation and emphasizes its historical development in East Timor since the Portuguese colonization period until the recent independence from Indonesia. Adopts a methodology of qualitative nature, based on an exploratory and descriptive study. Carries out field research in the Secondary School of Liquica District, involving data collection about 43 teachers and applying a questionnaire to 12 of them. Notes that most demand by respondents relates to the continued training in Portuguese, pedagogy and teaching methodology, as well as infrastructure and teaching-learning resources. It concludes by recommending that continued teacher training policy in East Timor should provide teachers the conscious exercise and self-critical of their role.