A formação continuada dos professores dos anos iniciais da escola bosque: limites e possibilidades

Abstract

The teacher training in Brazil has taking the leading role in educational policies. Changes in the productive basis around the world have brought changes in the schooling process of the Basic Education and, therefore, in teacher training. Parallel to this, transformations in the job, career and in teacher valorization have become important elements to reconfigure the professional's condition at this stage of schooling, including investments in public policies for continuing training, such as the National Pact for Literacy at the Right Age (the PNAIC, in Portuguese). The project was established by the Ministry of Education of Brazil in 2012 for the early years of Elementary School, focusing on the literacy of children up to eight years old. The main aim of the research was examine the teacher training policies, the pedagogical and methodological concepts and the evaluation system that guide the PNAIC. Specially, its contribution on the teaching in the Escola Bosque Eidorfe Moreira, which was founded to be an environmental education reference and whose pedagogical intend is different from the PNAIC. This qualitative research explored and analyzed the official documents about the Pact, as well as the materials of partner universities, and bibliographic survey about continuing training, the job and the teacher accountability. During the field research, teachers from this stage of schooling were interviewed to verify the potential effects of this Pact in the pedagogical practice of teachers. The data analysis considered that the speeches involve beliefs, values, geographical and historical situation which the teachers are in, what define too the way of acting and treating another one, that happens by concrete and not abstract statements. The results point out the need for greater articulation between the federal entities and the teaching institutions to adopt a continuing training program. It may fits for the regional educational peculiarities and articulates with each context and spheres of government, and besides that provides to keep the singularities, the autonomy and the teachers and students’ needs, so that the definition of the training parameters does not occur only at the national level. In conclusion, the PNAIC is characterized as an educational policy that intend to professionalize the teachers and offer a technical formation to them, according to a neoliberal logic, from the standardization of pedagogical work and materials, including largescale evaluations as a form of regulation. However, it is necessary a teacher training based on the school reality, context and needs of teachers, and should be considered the local culture, regional particularities and demands of the school community.