A (contra) reforma da educação pública em Minas Gerais: o Programa de Avaliação da Rede Pública de Educação Básica/Proeb em análise

Abstract

This work was developed to fulfill the following objectives: (i) to comprehend the uses of appropriation of the evaluation policy of basic education – Evaluation Program of Basic Education / Proeb – for teacher’s and public school’s administrators. (ii) analyze how this evaluation policy fits in the context of school management and pedagogical practice; (iii) to understand what the word “quality” means for professionals involved in the educational process in public schools (iv) analyze the impacts of Proeb in these schools, relating it to the curriculum, pedagogical practices and management practices. We conducted a theoretical study guided by historical and dialectical materialism, searching, from readings, to understand the politics of neoliberal education assessment imposed to schools since the 90’s. In this study, we observed that the policies that were implemented by the educational system of Minas Gerais are in the context of (anti) reform followed neoliberal assumptions tried to achieve greater efficiency and productivity in schools. In Minas Gerais, Proeb assessment represents this type of control the state over public schools. This type of evaluation policy is been arbitrarily inserted on school context, determining the goals of the pedagogical work. This has contributed to the proletarization of teaching. The Proeb is dictating not only what has to be taught, by definition of skills and competences to be developed, but also tells the way the teacher should do his or her work, interfering on teachers autonomy. In despite of the speech of the need for external evaluation to improve education’s quality, Proeb evaluation model does not consider the complexities of the educational process, guides itself only on the product, the final results, showing its orientation to the “exam” perspective, that does not contribute to the achievement of a quality education. Moreover, the assessment does not provide legitimate criterias to evaluate the quality of the offered education, considering that quality education is the one that offers a historicalcultural background and that meets the needs and expectations of students and the school community. We can conclude that the external evalution is been used by the state as one additional instrument to regulate teaching work and to assess it results.