Remarkable teachers: a look at the perspectives of basic education students

Abstract

The present study is part of a research developed during the course of a master's degree in education at a public university in the Southeast Region of Brazil. It derives from a research focused on identifying and analyzing the knowledge and know- how mobilized by basic education teachers considered remarkable by their students. In this paper, we present justifications mentioned by the students in indicating the teachers they considered positively remarkable in their school trajectories. Stemming from human sciences and having a qualitative nature, our research was submitted and approved by the Ethics  Committee and relied on a questionnaire composed of open and closed questions filled by students of the 1st year of the Teacher Training Course of a public state school. Upon completion, the students indicated teachers and/or former teachers they labelled remarkable and clarified their reasons. Data points out to the human  aspect as an important bias in the conduction of the practice, in particular, the inseparability between teaching well, valuing dialogue, and establishing affectionate relationships in everyday school life. We believe that the analyses presented can contribute to the broadening of the debate regarding teaching practice, providing information that may inspire further studies on the subject.