Política e práticas formativas em confronto na cidade de São Paulo a partir da gestão Paulo Freire (1989-1992): representação de professores sobre a escola

Abstract

Since 1956 in the city of São Paulo, the municipal public education has been suffering structural changes in two ways: to offer placements in the various educational modalities and to offer training courses during work hours to teachers of its educational system. Proposals for training courses during work hours, administrative modernisation, external exams, award for educational performance are at the core of these changes. In this context, the objective stated here is to analyse the training courses offered during two specific governments: Luiza Erundina s and Gilberto Kassab s, with their specific administrations in the educational field, Paulo Freire and Alexandre Schneider, and to understand the representations of school and training courses for teachers who lived through these governments. What we seek to comprehend are the reasons for the feeling of authorship and alienation in these training courses and the resulting unfoldment of teaching in the classroom. To complete this thesis, a historical study is carried out both of initial training courses in Brazil as well as in the city of São Paulo, and of training courses offered by the Municipal Secretariat of Education. We consider that the radicality of the training policies for teachers in the administration of Paulo Freire (1989-1992), who was in charge of the Municipal Secretariat of Education in São Paulo, was the result of a political position that advocated a critical-transformative education. This proposal was not adopted by the subsequent administrations educational policies. We take part in a discussion about the syllabus that permeates through all the moments presented here, as well as the life accounts of teachers who worked during the two governments aforementioned. With the qualitative method s contributions, the life accounts analysed here suggest reasons for quite contrary perceptions of the training courses that were offered and reiterate the idea that alienation prevents the formative process in administrations which do not consider teachers as individuals