Docência(s) – história, formação e prática escolares

This introductory paper raises discussions about teaching in different spaces and educational levels. It presents the set of articles produced by professors and researchers from national and international institutions that socialize investigations validating teaching from a historical approach, teacher education, and school practices. It defends teaching as a complex action situated in historical time, as well as in a social, cultural, and political context. It argues, based on the academic productions alluded to in the dossier, that teaching contributes to the human and critical formation of the subject.