A constituição da subjetividade docente no Brasil: um contexto global.

Translated title of the contribution: The constitution of teacher subjectivity in Brazil: some global context

Stephen J. Ball, Diego Santori, Antonio Olmedo, Patrick Bailey, Pablo Del Monte, Helen Young, Paula Mena, Chun-ying Tseng

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Abstract

The reforms taking place in Brazil, and elsewhere, act powerfully not only on the practices and values of public education, but also on the social relationships within the school and supra-school environment. They have a significant impact on teacher professionalism and work to constitute teachers and their subjectivity in line with performance and competition. Although we highlight general trends in neoliberal educational reforms, we also attend to some of the local specificities of policy enactments in a number of different countries.
Este artigo explora aspectos das reformas educacionais que estão ocorrendo no Brasil,
relacionando-os com uma ‘visão global’ que se aproxima das tendências e semelhanças que podem ser encontradas nas reformas educativas neoliberais em todo o mundo. Nós vamos delinear inúmeros processos inter-relacionados que se fazem presentes na escola como um local de trabalho, incluindo a intensificação do trabalho docente, a flexibilização da força de trabalho no ensino e a liberação da oferta de serviços na educação pública. O que será mostrado é que esses processos têm sido determinados por políticas neoliberais em escala global, por intermédio de uma combinação de privatizações endógenas e exógenas. As reformas que ocorrem no Brasil, e em muitos lugares, agem poderosamente não somente sobre as práticas e os valores da educação pública, mas também sobre as relações sociais no interior da escola e no entorno e para além do escolar. Elas têm um impacto significativo sobre o profissionalismo docente e opera para constituir docentes e suas subjetividades como performance e competição. Embora enfatizemos tendências gerais das reformas educativas neoliberais, também assistimos a algumas políticas locais específicas em inúmeros países.

This paper explores some of the educational reforms which are taking place in Brazil and sets these within a ‘global overview’ which pays close attention to the trends and commonalities which can be seen in neoliberal education reforms around the world. We will outline a number of interrelated processes that are acting on the school as a workplace, including intensification of teachers’ work, flexibilisation of the teaching workforce, and the liberalisation of the supply side of public education. What will be shown is that these processes are being informed by neoliberal policy enactments on a global scale through a combination of endogenous and exogenous privatisations.
The reforms taking place in Brazil, and elsewhere, act powerfully not only on the practices and values of public education, but also on the social relationships within the school and supra-school environment. They have a significant impact on teacher professionalism and work to constitute teachers and their subjectivity in line with performance and competition. Although we highlight general trends in neoliberal educational reforms, we also attend to some of the local specificities of policy enactments in a number of different countries.
Translated title of the contributionThe constitution of teacher subjectivity in Brazil: some global context
Original languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)9-36
JournalRevista Educação em Questão
Volume46
Issue number32
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2013

Keywords

  • Educational reform
  • Teachers' work
  • Performativity
  • Neoliberalism

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