(Self)Trainers movements through oneself research and writing

Abstract

This text has the intention to enlighten some fragments of the proceedings on researcher (self) education, involved in research and writing about herself. In a kind of hermeneutic exercise of self and others, the text will show the processes of how we become what we are and how we are being, from the studies of life histories in formation, with some contributions from the imaginary. The questions are displayed in a double movement: why we research? What we research? Thus, we will compose the research findings of life history research, carried out with eight students in the School of Education, during four years, at the Federal University of Pelotas, to show the existential and symbolic matrices which conduct the professional choices.