AS POLÍTICAS DE FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA DO PROFESSOR DO ENSINO MÉDIO NO TOCANTINS E SEUS DESDOBRAMENTOS NA VALORIZAÇÃO DOCENTE

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to study the policy of continuing education in the state of Tocantins for high school teachers in the period between 2011 to 2015. It also analyzed how the subjects of the research, who participate or participated in continuing education, perceive training in their professional performance. Continuing education is an important aspect of education, inserted in the pedagogical and administrative dimensions. Pedagogical, because we understand that continuing education is a process of continuous teaching and learning. It means a relationship in which the teachers are in the permanent condition of apprentices and the school as locus for the socialization of the knowledge hitherto produced. Administrative, because it is only effective through recognition of the need for such training for quality education. Understanding this need as a right to quality education, continuing education must be standardized and operationalized by the State, even if society has contributed to its planning. How is the Continuing Education Policy of High School Teachers in the state of Tocantins and what are the consequences of this policy in the appreciation of the teacher? The reflections were theoretically provided in official documents and researchers such as Brzezinski (2017), Frigotto; Ciavatta; Ramos (2005), Gatti (2008), Gentili (2001), Gil (2002), Gramsci (2006), Gruppi (1996), Ianni (1996), Konder (2002), Kuenzer (2002), Marx; Engels (2007) and Mesquita (2014), among others. The methodological path employed is anchored in dialectical historical materialism, so the study was carried out in qualitative and quantitative methodological research. The following procedures were defined: analysis of official documents, legislation, theoretical reference and questionnaires applied to the subjects of the research, which totaled 65 (sixty-five). These subjects work in 5 (five) municipalities of Tocantins, they are: Ananás, Araguanã, Babaçulândia, Barra do Ouro and Wanderlândia. It is observed in the teachers' statements that one of the characteristics that they find important in the continuous formations is the exchange of experiences and suggestions, reflecting on the contributions of the learning process experienced by each one. The data evidences the need for a renewal in the elaboration of the public policies of continuing education of teachers, especially of the High School, who need a better attention. The state of Tocantins is still focused on a process of formation for secondary education linked to the actions of the federal government. Professional appraisal policies also require an investment in a public tender for teachers, so that professionals can access the achievements of the Tocantins State's Position, Careers and Compensation Plan (PCCR), which until now is serving only to effective teachers, which in this research correspond to 31% of the subjects interviewed.