The symposium proposed aims to discuss significant results about the contributions of the theoretical perspective of social representation for researches in educational area. The teacher’s symbolizations, in one’s working, students, and social context relationship, are analyzed by Portuguese, Swedish, and Brazilian research groups through theoretical and empiric studies. Antonio Martins, Manuela Gonçalves, Luis Pardal and António Neto-Mendes, from University of Aveiro/Portugal analyze, on their paper, titled: “Social representations of teachers as expressed by parents of pupils in a Portuguese public school”, the social representations of teachers, as expressed by parents of pupils, on two specific dimensions:  the role of teachers in the lives of their children and the particularities/constraints of the teaching activity. Mohamed Chaib, Jönköping University/Sweden, on his paper, “Social Representations Perspectives on Learning and Understanding”, supports that our representations of the learning objects determine in many aspects our ability to learn and to assimilate knowledge. According to the author, the theory of social representations may contribute to a deeper understanding of the learning process out of the learner’s common sense knowledge of the learning objects. Karina Alves Biasoli Stanich and Clarilza Prado de Sousa, from Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo/Brazil, will discuss research results of the Project “Social Representations of Teachers 5^th grade elementary school on Geometry and its teaching” in which brought together teachers of eighteen school units from São Paulo/Brazil with the intention to understand the manner of these teachers identified and represented the difficulties of their students regarding Geometry knowledge. Clarilza Prado de Sousa, Adelina Novaes, and Lúcia Villas Bôas, from International Center of Studies on Social Representations and Subjectivity – Education/Brazil, will focus the advances and theoretical articulations around the project “Social Representations of Pedagogy and Teaching Degree Students on the Teaching Work”, developed by a network of researchers that comprise 40 research groups from 25 national and international universities. The Project consisted in identifying how students of the first years of undergraduate programs in the education area (Pedagogy and Teaching Degrees) are defining their future professionality during the course by means of analysis of the building processes of their social representations on the teacher’s work. The symposium proposed concludes the five presentations in orther to enable conditions for transformation of the teaching profession. It is necessary to comprehend the social representations of teachers or about teachers, and also the conditions under which they act.