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Federalism. Articulated actions plan. Teachers Continued Education.
This work aims to discuss about teachers continued education in the elementary school related to the Plano de Ações Articuladas – PAR (2007-2011) in the city of São José do Campestre-RN. For this, it discuss about State Federalist Brazilian organization that inserted this city as member of federalism, this fact implicates in the necessity of establishment of an inter-governmental collaboration system, consequently re-ordering educational politics. This research results in this dissertation that is inserted in the Observatório da Educação – Obeduc/Capes, in a project named “Avaliação do Plano de Ações Articuladas – PAR: um estudo em municípios do Rio Grande do Norte, Pará e Minas Gerais (2007-2011)”. To initiate this research, there are some questions: how to configure relationships between governmental instances in the PAR implementation in the city of São José do Campestre/RN? Does the elementary school teacher continued education, developed by the PAR (2007-2011) in the Municipal Teaching System in São José do Campestre, correspond to the teachers necessities to improve their practice? This work has, therefore, as objective to analyze some aspects of continued education of
elementary school teachers implemented by the PAR (2007-2011) in the city of São José do Campestre/RN. This investigation is based on a qualitative approach, with a vision about the relation between quality and quantity, based on a piece of information, data and indication to this research. For this, it takes some knowledge from historical materialism dialectic method, because contradictions and totality can comprehend significant aspects to understand social-historical reality. For that, it uses some aspects of the comprehensive interview methodology, since interviews are linked to the theoretical approaches to analyze this problem as well as a literature and documental review. The empirical field is, therefore, São José do Campestre/RN, focused on the Secretaria Municipal de Educação. To the interviews, it has three members of local Committee of São José do Campestre/RN and a technician from MEC that supports the PAR elaboration in the Rio Grande do Norte cities. This study observed PAR consists in a manager tool that aims to give responsibility to the local managers in the educational process, without an equal participation of governmental instances in the implementation of actions. Related to the São José do Campestre, a small city, that has no practice in the planned actions, with professionals that do not have autonomy yet, PAR can promote significant changes in the educational relationships, especially concerned to the teachers continued formation, stimulating this staff to give importance to the collective study and to the creation of a teacher continued formation plan. From the total of actions liked to the continued education required to this city, only one was implemented referring to the Portuguese and Mathematic improvement, showing that some necessities to the teacher formation in this system can have been influenced by extern evaluation of the schools.