Silva, Luzimar Barbalho daCastro, Alda Maria Duarte Araújo2016-07-202016-07-202007SILVA, Luzimar Barbalho da; CASTRO, Alda Maria Duarte Araújo. Política de formação de professores: variação do lócus de formação e a experiência do CEFET-RN, Natal. Revista Educação em Questão, Natal, v. 30, n. 16, p. 99-126, set./dez. 2007. ISSN 1981-1802. Disponível em: <http://www.revistaeduquestao.educ.ufrn.br/pdfs/v30n16.pdf>https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/20990The present article discusses the directives of the policies of the initial teachers’ formation introduced in Brazil in the 1990’s. These directives have brought new directions and demands, both to the formation institutions and to teachers’ formation. This work analyzes the enlargement and the variation of the formation locus, a topic criticized by the teaching educators for enabling different and flexible models which have taken to a more technical and instrumental formation to the detriment of a theoretical and practical solid formation. In a general way, the study reveals that the CEFET’s use as a space of teachers’ formation has given priority to the quantitative aspects, the optimization of the resources and the instrumentation of the educators’ formation, even though under the speech of the quality of the educational process. Differently, the operationalization of this policy at CEFET-RN has favored a formative model, which has joined research, extension and teaching, guaranteeing the specificity of a solid formation, as well as the articulation between theory and practice and the sense of investigation, necessary characteristics to the formation of a devoted educator with the quality of public education.porAcesso AbertoFormação inicial de professoresDiretrizes para a formaçãoLócus de formaçãoarticle