Efeitos do Projer para escolas públicas estaduais do Polo Mata Mineiro

Abstract

The research this study was to analyze the implementation and effects of the Schools Project-Reference (Projeto Escolas-Referência - Projer) for public schools participating - Schools-Reference (Escolas-Referência - ER) - belonging to Polo Regional Forest miner. Thus, we sought to identify whether the ER could disseminate the changes resulting from participation in Projer to their Associates - as was foreseen in the project - and to seize direct or indirect effects of such participation, focusing primarily on the creation of discussion groups, training and teaching. We analyzed the results of schools in PROEB, the 9th year of elementary school, in the period from 2006 to 2009, in order to identify whether there was significant change in the results of the institutions included in the Project. We used document analysis about Projer, regulatory assessments, the governing bodies and the results. There were also semi-structured interviews with managers of two ER and their respective associates, which aims to identify changes resulting from participation in Projer. Still, there was a technical interview with the same Superintendence. Data analysis was based on authors such as Gatti, Calderano, Oliveira, Sousa and Brooke, identifying their contributions between consensual and disparate positions, consolidating thus the complexity of the subject. From this study, it can be said that: i) the Projer not fulfilled its goal of networking, spreading the actions experienced in the ER for Associates and later to other schools, ii) it was up to the professionals of ER function performers in Projer, however was not assured a perspective that autonomous determination; iii) the difficulty in continuing the Projer gave up, among other reasons, lack of understanding of the project by some participating institutions, lack of resources and conditions to adapt to necessary changes and develop the proposed work; iv) the Projer eventually contributed to the accountability of schools, since through it, deployed and implemented outside the CBC - the base of the array reference assessments SIMAVE; v) internal contradictions were also viewed: while the Projer drove to a collaborative relationship, collective interaction among institutions, among professionals, was formed in the same way a policy marked by contractualism, setting goals, taking as reference external evaluations. Despite the problems encountered, it can be said that some improvements have occurred within the ER, especially in the symbolic field, the social meaning attributed to the school by their belonging to the group of "excellence."