Programa “Educar pra valer”: em tempos de neoliberalização da educação

Abstract

The research theme is "educational policy in times of neoliberalism", having as object of study the program "Educar pra Valer”, implemented in 5th year classes of the initial grades of elementary school in the municipal education network of João Pessoa - PB, from the year 2019. The purpose of this work was to contribute to the studies on educational policies that are implemented in municipal education networks as strategies for raising the quality in public education and student learning. This research sought to answer the following question: What neoliberal elements and strategies can be identified from the implementation of the program "Educar pra Valer" in the municipal education network of João Pessoa? Our objective was to analyze the relationships that are established between the implementation of the program "Educar pra Valer" in the municipal schools of João Pessoa and neoliberal strategies for education. And for this we aimed, specifically in this work to describe the processes of implementation of the Program "Educar pra Valer" in the municipal Education Network of João Pessoa in 2019; To know the organization, the partnerships established and objectives of the program "Educar pra Valer" in the municipality of João Pessoa and to analyze the ideological and political elements established in the mediation between Neoliberalism and educational policy from the implementation of the program "Educar pra Valer" and its strategies to improve the "quality of public education". Our methodology is guided by the dialectical historical materialist method. We started using a bibliographic and documental research. The instrument used was a questionnaire applied virtually, composed of 14 open and closed questions, to 10 teachers of 5th grade of elementary school. After the analysis of the data, we highlight that from the point that the program of a certain public policy of education inserts some elements of a market logic, expressed in a rationalization of the work in the classroom, measured millimeters in minutes; in the prioritization of some contents in detriment of others, mainly in what refers to the quantification of the students' individual readings; It performs external, systematic and standardized evaluations and restricts the teaching/learning processes to the acquisition of skills and competencies, and it does so guided by a partnership with private institutions and under financing from speculative capital and investment funds from the Lemann foundation, which are in charge of determining the new parameters and directions of education under the discourse of increasing the quality of public education, is implementing Neoliberal elements and strategies in Education, aiming at the expansion of labor productivity, and thus, the expanded reproduction of capital.