Os PCN em materiais didáticos para a formação de professores

Abstract

This research aimed at identifying if and how the official curricular policy, National Curricular Parameters (PCN, in Portuguese), presented by the Education and Culture Ministry, was being spread, by means of teacher training university courses in distance education experiences. The interest in the research was justified by the possibility of such learning method having become an important mans of divulging such policy. We chose to conduct a bibliographic-documental research of the PCN text and of the printed didactic material used by two teacher training courses developed to be taught by distance. The data was classified and catalogued into 8 categories: 1) decentralization, school autonomy, co-accountability, participation appeal; 2) development in the student of competencies and commitment to the formation towards citizenship; 3) political commitment by the educator towards the students and results; 4) epistemological perspective; 5) profile and valorization of the teacher’s critical and reflexive competencies; 6) content organization, didactics and evaluation; 7) inclusive perspective; 8) time and space of the school. We used as theoretical reference the concepts and analysis originated from studies about the elaboration and circulation of curricular policies developed by Stephen BalI, Edil Paiva, Alice Lopes, Elizabete Macedo and from studies about teacher training policies elaborated by Helena Freitas, Marli André, Menga Ludke, Iria Brzezinski. We contrasted the analysis of such authors with PCN texts and printed didactic material used by the selected teacher training courses with the intent of identifying and analyzing the elements which would allow us to affirm if the PCN guidelines were being adopted by such courses. We came to the conclusion that the PCN figurated in the didactic material in hybrid form and were more clearly present in the course organized by UNIRIO than in that of UFES.