TRAJECTORIES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS' IDENTITY SYSTEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF NORTHERN MATO GROSSO STATE, LOCATED IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
Identity. English Language Teacher. Narratives. Complex Adaptive Systems.
This research aims to present the trajectory of the identity systems of the English Language (LI) teacher in the context of the Legal Amazon through the perspective of complex adaptive systems (SAC), in order to understand how this professional has constituted his/her identity in times considered as modern and postmodern, in which globalization performs a fundamental role in the constitution of identity and LI has been recognized as a language in continuous expansion. Thus, based on sociologists and researchers of the identity area, such as Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 2002), Giddens (1991, 1999, 2002), Baumam (2005), Morin (2005, 2008, 2011, 2018), Resende (2009 ), Block (2014), Woodward (2014), Silva (2014) and Hall (2014, 2015), this dissertation presents the concept of identity not as an essence or a fact of nature, but as symbolic, discursive and social constructions composed by diverse elements or attributes emerging from the interaction among the subject and its social, cultural, economic, historical and political context. Bearing in mind of the multiplicity of identities that can emerge in the course of a life path, analyzing the identity(ies) of the LI teacher(s) from the perspective of complex adaptive systems, is relevant for linguistic studies, considering that this is an open system, dynamic, composed of interrelationships among biological, psychological, social elements and all the dimensions involved in the constitution of identities. So that, this investigation uses the Theory of Complexity as a theoretical basis from the perspective of the authors Larsen-Freeman (1997), Paiva (2007, 2011, 2014, 2016), Martins and Braga (2007), Larsen-Freeman & Cameron (2008) , Resende (2009), Sade (2009, 2011), Borges and Paiva (2011), Azevedo and Borges (2013), Silva and Borges (2016) e Borges (2018),. The methodology adopted is of a qualitative / interpretative nature and the analysis is guided by the complexity paradigm. With this epistemological basis, the procedure for data collection was developed through narrative interview. The data obtained made it possible to understand the trajectory of the identity constitution as a living, open, dynamic, adaptive, non-linear and complex process and to verify that identity is not a fixed, unified attribute, but a phenomenon that happens in the interaction with the world. The results characterize the trajectory of IL teachers' identity systems in the Amazon context as a SAC, given that through discourse and interaction among the different communities of practices and the different contexts (social, cultural, political, economic and historical) new identity fractals emerge and coexist in the identity whole, contributing to the formation of the individual's personal, social, professional and unique identity. Therefore, it is possible to affirm that identities are in constant transformation and (re)construction.