The present dissertation is a study inspired in the auto-ethnography of socio-discursive experiences situated in a public school context and results from the exploratory understanding that the role of students in classrooms exceeds that of learning. Guided by such an understanding, the dissertation proposes a continuous teacher development process build upon the relationship with those who learn with the teacher: the students. Inserted in the interdisciplinary field of Brazilian contemporary Applied Linguistics, the study organizes the investigation of social processes in the micro-macro dynamic through the analysis of narrative discourses. To this purpose, it invites research practitioners (students, teachers) to engage in Potentially Exploratory Conversations motivated by classroom episodes lived by the researcher. The narratives that emerged in these conversations were analysed by focusing on power relations and understandings about teaching and learning through the positioning of the research participants, including the researcher. The analysis shows that hierarchical disparities persist in the teacher-students relation while learning is built through the acts of dialoguing and listening. These learning moments or opportunities are sometimes built by the teacher and, at other moments, are noticed in the students’ discourse. In both cases, it is noticed that what is learned exceeds pedagogical content and points to the quality of life (or, the qualities of the lives) lived or experienced in the classroom. This allows for topics socially faced as taboos (conflicts, for example) to be discussed and negotiated in the interaction. As a result, this local discursive dynamic points to global repertoires that address, for example, the place of emotions in school contexts. In addition, in this embedment between micro and macro, there is room for persistencies as much as there is room for micro-fissures in the construction of the relation-that-is-development between teacher and students.