Qualidade em educação no Brasil no contexto das reformas neoliberais

Abstract

The general aim of this study, linked to the research line Public Politics and Education Management, was to investigate the concepts of quality in education starting from the implementation of full-scale evaluation politics in Brazil, that are part of the System for Evaluating Primary Education (SAEB), in the neoliberal context of the 1990's. The research was guided by the following problem: how can the concept of quality in education be understood from the full-scale evaluation politics implemented in Brazil in the neoliberal context of the end of 20th century? To answer this problem the study was based by the following specific objectives: to investigate as the concept of quality in education was researched academically in the area of Education; to understand the concept of liberalism and neoliberalism in the full-scale evaluation politics, since the decade of 1990; to analyze the concept of quality in education in the Brazilian legislation; and to present a report concerning the appearance of SAEB and its changes since its implementation related to quality subjects. The interest in the study theme elapsed of my practice as teacher, educator and director of a municipal school located in a community of social vulnerability in Curitiba, where it was perceptible the influence of the socioeconomic conditions of the families in the students learning. The methodology of this research was a bibliographical and documental study. The study had as theoretical basis the publications of Coutinho (2000); Cury (1998, 2013a, 2013b, 2014); Beisiegel (2006); Saviani (1997, 1999, 2016); Shiroma, Moraes and Evangelista (2011); Frigotto (2002, 2015); Pinto (2007, 2013); Freitas (2007); Dourado (2010); Dourado and Oliveira (2009); Dourado, Oliveira and Santos (2007); Sordi (2017); Gentili (2015); Oliveira (1999); Oliveira and Araújo (2005); Ximenes (2014). Finally, the research concluded that the predominant concept of quality in education since the implementation and spread in Brazil of the full-scale evaluations is combined with the demands originating from the productive restructuring that demand a flexible, versatile and adaptable worker, for who the public primary education can be reduced to the minimum that guarantees the learning of writing, reading and calculation.