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Abstract This article aims to show the Physical education’s teachers characterization process towards for references the continuing education. That is understand able from the analysis of the reasons for choosing the career, the perception of training needs and the professional aspirations. The 14 participants were teachers of Physical Education from São Paulo states, Brazil. The data were collected from questionnaires and processed in analysis categories. The results show: the reasons for the career choice were mostly based on intrinsic values, which represent the personality traits; the perception of the training needs are based on their difficulties, mainly the ones related to their teaching practice; the professional aspirations indicate directions for the empowerment of the subject's identity. With the process of the personal and the professional historicity, the recommendations indicated that is necessary to explore the contexts of teacher’s life and career to offer contextualized and differentiated continuing education ways.

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