Biographical aspects, space and displacements in the construction of meanings about teaching in a suburban university

Abstract

The article is part of the research project entitled "Practices and meanings about teaching at the National University of José C. Paz" directed by Lucía Petrelli and co-directed by Rosario Austral, appealing to the narrative biographical approach to understand the trajectories of teachers university students. This approach, within longitudinal studies, explores the experiences and perspectives of subjects over time, integrating both objective facts and subjective interpretations. In particular, the importance of considering not only chronological time and physical space, but also biographical time and space, where knowledge, skills and personal relationships are intertwined, is highlighted.

This proposal focuses on the intersection between teaching and spatial dimension, exploring the movements of university teachers at three analytical levels - geographical, reflective and pedagogical -, with the aim of understanding how they construct and develop meanings about teaching at UNPaz. Thus, the writing not only seeks to record the multiplicity of ways in which time and space emerge in the interviews, but also to delve into how the ways of understanding space and displacement are linked to the construction of meanings about teaching in a university. suburban.