A privatização de novo tipo na formação continuada dos professores da rede municipal de João Pessoa: o Programa “Educar para Valer”

Abstract

This dissertation deals with research within the scope of Line 1: Educational History, Policy and Management, of the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Campina Grande (PPGEd/UFCG). Its purpose is the privatization of a new type of continuing teacher training, developed by the Educar pra Valer Program (EpV) in the municipality of João Pessoa/PB. The research was guided by the following guiding question: How is the new type of privatization expressed in the Cooperation Agreement, the Work Plan and the annual Plan for continuing and in-service training for teachers in the municipality of João Pessoa/PB, developed by the Educar pra Valer program? In this direction, it is guided by the general objective: to analyze the new type of privatization in municipal public education in João Pessoa-PB, with a focus on the continued training of teachers developed by the EpV Program. To this end, we have the following specific research mediating objectives: (i) contextualize the counter-reform of the Brazilian State and the continuing teacher training policy; (ii) identify the main aspects and principles of new type privatization in the continued formation of the Educar pra Valer Program; (iii) investigate the mediations to implement a new type of privatization in the continuing education of teachers in the municipal network of João Pessoa and, (iv) analyze the conceptions of teachers and the training perspective present in the guiding documents of the Educar pra Valer Program. The analysis of the object is anchored in the theoretical methodological contribution of historical-dialectical materialism with the analysis categories totality, historicity, contradiction and mediation and, as mediators of the analyses, the concepts of new type privatization, continued teacher training and hegemony. To analyze the data obtained, content analysis (Bardin, 2021) was adopted based on thematic analysis. The analysis of the documents presented, as a result, two new categories, namely: privatization and the role of the teacher. Privatization is possible thanks to legal political mediations, both at the macro and micro levels, that is, the formulation of federal, state and municipal laws. The second category is the role of the teacher within the Educar pra Valer Program.EpV's continued training is based on the epistemology of practice, and the teacher's role is practical-reflective. Another aspect found in the analyzes of the role of the teacher described in the guiding documents is the notion that the teacher is an instrument, an object for achieving the goals imposed by the Program on the municipality.