Formação continuada de professores e qualidade do ensino : um estudo sobre o Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa – PNAIC/Nova Iguaçu/RJ

Abstract

The present work emerged from my personal experiences as a teacher of the municipal education network of Nova Iguaçu and, above all, from my experiences as a study guide of the National Pact for Literacy in the Proper Age (PNAIC), a Federal Government policy aimed at helping children up to 8 years of age to complete the literacy cycle. These experiences stimulated the choice of the research object: the contributions of the PNAIC to the improvement of the quality of Brazilian education. In this sense, my main objective was to analyze the actions of the PNAIC, under development in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, in order to identify the impacts of this public policy in improving the quality of education in the municipality. The specific objectives were to unveil the conception of literacy teachers, the local coordinator and the managers of the Education Secretariat about the contributions of the Pact to improve the quality of education in the municipality. Also the main difficulties encountered by literacy teachers in the PNAIC continuing education course. In addition, the possible impacts on the educational indicators that evaluate the performance of students in the literacy process in the local school district. Within the framework of the policy cycle approach, I consulted studies on policies to improve the quality of teaching from the 1980s. I also sought the different conceptions of educational quality that derive from the educational policies implemented. And the perspectives on initial and continuing teacher education in basic education. In order to achieve the main objective, I chose the quantitative-qualitative approach and used as data collection instrument the questionnaire, applied to 31 teacher-students. In addition, semi-structured interview with the coordinator of the Pact in the municipality and with a manager of the Secretary of Education of Nova Iguaçu. Moreover, participant observation in the PNAIC training course. The results of the research indicate that the Pact has brought good contributions to teachers' practice and to the teaching-learning process in the literacy cycle, which, in a way, has promoted a positive impact on the educational data of the municipality. However, we observed that a series of local characteristics, such as lack of education resources, too many students per classroom, double shifts for teachers and undemocratic relations inside schools makes it difficult to apply the Program and to obtain even better results in educational indexes.