THE INFLUENCE OF AFFECTIVE EXPERIENCES IN THE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE OF TEACHERS OF SCIENCE
Affectivity is one of the dimensions that form the human being and is directly related to the subject's psychological and cognitive development. It is the condition of the human being to be affected by events inherent to the internal and external world. In this context, it is possible to state that affectivity is present in the interactions established in the school environment and can favorably or unfavorably influence the teaching-learning process. Based on this assumption, the main objective of this work is to investigate and analyze the influence of the affective dimension on the trajectory of Science teachers, based on the emotional episodes experienced during the teaching-learning process of these professionals, as well as the implications of these experiences in pedagogical decisions of these teachers. Research volunteers were selected from an extension course called A influência das emoções na prática educativa: concepções e vivências de professores de ciências (“The influence of emotions in educational practice: conceptions and experiences of science teachers”), which took place between May and June 2022. To form the research corpus, five volunteers were selected and data were collected from activities carried out during the course, socialization during meetings, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. All data were transcribed, submitted to Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) and triangulated in order to identify possible implications on the feasible influence of emotional experiences during the teaching-learning process of these professionals and their decisions in the classroom. The five investigated teachers demonstrated that they were affected by their emotional experiences during basic education and higher education, which, according to their reflections, influence their pedagogical choices today.