A política de formação de professores/as em serviço: análise do projeto escolas referência de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The concern with in service ongoing training in contemporary scenario has become central, although this theme is not new in the context of educational policies. The increasing number of papers on this subject in the last years is a proof of this interest. The research expansion on this approach is articulated with the State counter-reformation and thus the Brazilian education counter-reform bringing evidence that this is considered as a fundamental part in the productive restructuring process, because it is responsible for the change that was expected to promote the teachers, by the professionalization processes. The theme of this survey involves the in service ongoing training of the teachers who work in Minas Gerais public schools. This clipping covers the Reference Schools Project (PROJER) implemented by Minas Gerais State government since 2003. It approaches specially the in service ongoing training Program as a part of PROJER, named as Professional Development Project (PDP). In this project, we analyzed the Professional Development Groups (PDG) who worked from 2004 to 2012 in the Reference Schools (RS) in the city of Uberlândia. This research is a part of PRODOUTORAL (PRODOCTORAT), supported by CAPES and it aimed to (a) analyze the fundamentals of the PROJER’s in service training program under PDG; (b) analyze the implementation process and its implications in teacher’s professionalization; (c) analyze the meaning of the formation program and the role of PDG, considering the challenges of teacher’s professionalization and training and qualification of educational work. The hypothesis was that PDP Program, as a part of PROJER, a compensatory training measure that does not allow a consistent teacher’s formation, based on deepening and advancing knowledge about teaching and learning. It also intensifies the coordinators’ labor. We used a combination of tools for data collection: documentary research, literature review, the mixed questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. We recorded 43 interviews to PDG’s coordinators and to 9 managers of the Reference Schools and to 2 educational analysts in 40thEducation Superintendent. The used theoretical tools involve elements from Sociologic Theory in order to analyze both the State and Educational counter-reformation. We used the concept of State ideas besides the managerialism concept which supports the idea of counter-reformation ideas and the concept of intellectual as cultural organizers according to Gramsci. The concepts arising from educational theory that support PROJER, our analysis object, in its specific approach PDG were the following ones: pedagogic autonomy; educational work and teacher’s professionalization. Our conclusions point out that the in service ongoing training process stated by PROJER served to consolidate the "evaluation policy" at the expense of raising the professional quality of the GDP’s coordinators and it established the strong managerialism in Minas Gerais Education resulting in an intensification of teacher’s work