Formação continuada de professores

Abstract

tate reform, the spread of economic neo-liberalism, decentralization, changes in the role of the state and the role of civil society, the opening of school for the economically less privileged social layers and intense economic and technological development marked the end of the twentieth century and inaugurated the concerns with the twenty-first century (HOBSBAWM, 1995; BALL, 2004).In this context of deep changes, the quality of public education is highlighted, the target of discussions and numerous public policy projects.Associated with the quality policy has been concern about the continuing education teacher, a subject that has been the target of public educational policies of recent decades.According to the unique role that continuing education courses are taken in Brazilian education as a viable means for improving the quality of teaching and teacher appreciation, and inserted in a system of collaboration among federal entities, there is a need to better understand municipal systems of education, considering that after the municipalization of Elementary Education, the municipalities councils became responsible for a large share of education and therefore responsible for the selection, training and management of a broad faculty.So, the observation, monitoring and analyzing the performance of municipalities face these challenges become highly relevant topic for research in the area of Public Policy Education.Therefore, this study will focus on questions related to the formulation of public policies for continuous training of teachers in Monte Mor -SP and Sumaré SP, after the municipalization of elementary school.The research is based primarily on a mixed methodology involving quantitative and qualitative aspects.The information was gathered from five main sources: a) research on their websites of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the State System of Data Analysis Statistics (SEADE), Cities of Monte Mor and Sumaré, and articles, dissertations and theses related to the topic, b) monitoring of continuing education courses offered in these cities which are being studied, visits to the Training Centre (Sumaré, in this case) and to the Municipal Education, c) electronic questionnaire answered by representatives via internet and the EMS Training Center or d) interviews with officials of the Municipal Education ,Training Centre, principals and coordinators, e) analysis of laws, decrees, municipal plans, curriculum guidelines, and other documents relevant to the system education and continuing education in the municipalities.Among the results, include: centralized training and partnerships with the private sector in both cities; presence of Training Centre only in Sumaré; external trainers (private companies) in Monte Mor and internal (municipal teachers and coordinators ) in Sumaré; certification only in Sumaré; linking with external evaluations (Brazil Exam, SARESP, IDEB) only in Monte Mor; impact on the teaching profession in both cities; neoliberal brands with greater expressiveness in Monte Mor.