The International Seminar on Third Spaces in Teacher Training will be held on June 16 and 17, 2025, as part of the activities of the Fundep Magda Soares Chair in Basic Education at the Institute of Advanced Transdisciplinary Studies (IEAT) at UFMG.

Scheduled to take place in the auditorium of the UFMG rectory, the seminar is open to students, researchers, professors, basic education teachers and others interested in the topic. To participate, it is necessary to register through the Even3 platform. Certificates of participation will be issued.

The seminar aims to discuss in more depth concepts that have been debated in the scope of research conducted by the Fundep Magda Soares Chair of Basic Education at IEAT and that are fundamental to the institutional policy of training basic education teachers at UFMG and other universities that are part of the Minas Gerais Teacher Training Network. Click here to access the event schedule.

The opening session of the event will be held on June 16, at 10 am. Then, at 10:30 am, there will be presentations on research projects linked to the Chair, with emphasis on the participation of researchers from the “Research Circles”, from a network research project funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) on communities and teacher training, and, finally, from the Minas Gerais Teacher Training Network.

In the afternoon, at 1:00 p.m., Professor António Nóvoa, holder of the Fundep Magda Soares Chair in Basic Education at IEAT and honorary rector of the University of Lisbon, in Portugal, will give a lecture on Common spaces in teacher training. Next, Professor Kenneth Zeichner, from the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison and Washington, in the United States, will give a lecture on Hybrid spaces in teacher training. The lecture will be given in English, with simultaneous translation. This will be followed by a debate with the audience.

To conclude the day’s activities, at 4:00 p.m., the book A condicionado professores na rede estadual de educação de Minas Gerais (The teaching condition in the state education network of Minas Gerais) will be launched, written based on a collective study by the Research Group on the Teaching Profession (Prodoc), which brings together researchers from several universities and basic education networks in the state of Minas Gerais.

On June 17, the seminar will feature a program focused on exchanging experiences with international guests focusing on research on teacher training in their respective countries. Two round tables and a conversation circle will be held around the theme Challenges and possibilities in the construction of third spaces in teacher training. The first round table, starting at 9 am, will feature the participation of Bonifácio Langa, from the Pedagogical University of Maputo, in Mozambique; Caroll Schilling, from the Catholic University of Maule, in Chile; Heli Sabino de Oliveira and Maria José Flores, from UFMG. The mediation will be conducted by António Nóvoa.

In the afternoon, at 2:00 p.m., a roundtable discussion will be held. To conclude the event, at 5:00 p.m., a second roundtable discussion will be held virtually, broadcast on the IEAT YouTube channel. The roundtable will bring together researchers Jo Lampert and Marnee Shay, from Monash University and the University of Queensland, Australia, respectively; Júlio Emílio Diniz, from UFMG; Lorena Guillen, from the University of California, in the United States; and Maria Alfredo Moreira and Teresa Sarmento, both from the University of Minho, in Portugal. The roundtable will be moderated by Kenneth Zeichner. The roundtable discussion will be in English, with simultaneous translation.

About the IEAT Fundep Magda Soares Chair in Basic Education

Held in partnership with the UFMG Support Foundation (Fundep), the Fundep Magda Soares Chair in Basic Education at IEAT aims to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge in research on basic education and teacher training. According to Professor Júlio Emílio Diniz, coordinator of the Chair, the aim has been to foster advanced and transdisciplinary research on the topic of basic education, focusing on the spaces and processes that can contribute to the diagnosis and improvement of teacher training. Thus, the proposal is that the research developed can serve as a subsidy for the development of actions with a direct impact on undergraduate courses throughout the state of Minas Gerais.

One of the Chair’s main activities is the creation of “Research Circles”, groups composed of researchers from UFMG, other educational institutions and, necessarily, basic education educators. These circles focus on the deepening of themes relevant to teacher training, such as the construction of “third spaces” in teacher training, processes of construction of professional knowledge and teaching practices in diverse school contexts.

According to educator Raquel Augusta Melilo Carrieri, who is carrying out post-doctoral research at the aforementioned Chair, the proposal to consolidate “Research Circles” is in line with the intersectoral perspective and is directly related to collaborative efforts as an axis for solving complex social problems.