A utilização do material didático na política de alfabetização MAISPAIC: um estudo de caso no município de Juazeiro no Norte – Ceará

Abstract

This dissertation is developed within the scope of the Professional Master's in Education Management and Evaluation (PPGP) from the Center for Public Policy and Education Evaluation at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The case study studied focuses on the Learning at the Right Age Program - MAISPAIC, created by the Government of the State of Ceará in order to promote the improvement of educational indicators in the municipalities of Ceará and assumed the character of public policy in 2007, when the 184 municipalities in the State joined the program. The research investigates the implementation of MAISPAIC in the municipality of Juazeiro do Norte / CE, with a focus on didactic material prepared for the 1st and 2nd years of elementary school. The question that guided this study was: how can the material used in implementing MAISPAIC in the Municipal Secretariat of Juazeiro do Norte contribute to the achievement of the objectives of this policy? The general objective was to analyze how the teaching material is used in the implementation of MAISPAIC in two municipal schools in Juazeiro do Norte. And the specifics were: to describe MAISPAIC, its pedagogical conception, the structural axes of the program and the educational context of Juazeiro do Norte from 2007 to 2017; to analyze how the structured materials for the 1st and 2nd years of MAISPAIC Elementary Education are used in the implementation of MAISPAIC in two municipal schools in Juazeiro do Norte; and to propose, in partnership with the Municipal Education Secretariat of Juazeiro do Norte, an action plan for articulated action between CREDE and SME, aiming to improve the implementation of the policy in this municipality, focusing on the use of structured materials from the MAISPAIC program for 1st and 2nd years of elementary school. To do so, we used bibliographic research as a methodology, based on the studies on public policies by Ball (1996), training and teaching work, considering Libâneo (1994) and Tardif (2011), didactic materials, focusing on Lajolo (1998), in addition to documentary analysis of reports published by the program coordinator, data from schools, results of external evaluations, observations, interviews with different subjects who work in implementing MAISPAIC and focus groups conducted with teachers from the two schools surveyed. Through field research, the following problems were identified: low frequency and systematization in the pedagogical monitoring carried out by the regional and municipal teams; lack of participation by managers in the MAISPAIC training offered to teachers; need for adjustments in the structured material; delay in the distribution of material to SMEs. As actions proposed in the Educational Action Plan (PAE) to face the identified problems, we highlight: discussion groups between CECOM / CREDE and SME on pedagogical monitoring; elaboration of a monitoring instrument; training for pedagogical coordinators on MAISPAIC material; discussion groups with teachers from 1st and 2nd years of Elementary School in the municipal network of Juazeiro do Norte about the MAISPAIC material. The proposed actions do not cover all the problems related to the MAISPAIC implementation process, but they propose to encourage new actions developed from there, in order to have an impact on improvements in the teaching and learning process of public schools in the region.