A mística da profissionalização docente
The educational reforms developed by the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) to attack the supposed inefficiency and bad quality of state schools, have had the paradoxical effect of disqualifying many teachers in elementary schools. In this context, the State selected the profess...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade do Minho
2003-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Portuguesa de Educação |
| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37416202 |
| Summary: | The educational reforms developed by the government of Fernando Henrique
Cardoso (1995-2002) to attack the supposed inefficiency and bad quality of
state schools, have had the paradoxical effect of disqualifying many teachers
in elementary schools. In this context, the State selected the
professionalization of teachers as the pivot of the changes that it sought. It
aimed to produce new meanings for the idea of teacher professionalism. The
intention of this article is to discuss the use of the notion of professionalization
and the centrality attributed to the teacher, associating them with the solution
of problems related not only to education, but also to the economic and
political spheres. We suggest that the term professionalization is intentionally
reiterated in teacher training policy documents because of its positive
connotations in common parlance and its ability to produce certain effects as
a result of this. The concept is therefore used as a strategy to build a
consensus between educators and reformers about the hegemonic project of
education and society. |
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| ISSN: | 0871-9187 |