EXTERNAL EXAMS AND TEACHING AUTONOMY: SMAEF as a means of reproducing culture through results

• Main Author: Cunha, Niágara Vieira Soares
• Publication Date: 2020
• Other Authors: Silvestre, Pedro Henrique, Maia, Francisco Eraldo da Silva, dos Santos, Sarah Galdino, de Oliveira, Talisson Mota
• Format: Article
• Language: por; spa; eng
• Source: Movimento (Niterói, Online)
• Download full: https://periodicos.uff.br/revistamovimento/article/view/44467
• topic: Educação. Avaliação externa. SMAEF.; Educación. Evaluación externa. SMAEF.

This research brings up a study about external exams and their implications for teaching autonomy and profession. The reference is the county of Russas, located in the Jaguaribe Valley Region, in the State of Ceará. We intend to analyze the implications of the Municipal System for the Evaluation of Elementary Education (SMAEF - acronym in portuguese), in the county of Russas-CE, in the autonomy and valorization of teaching work. The paradigm was investigative Marxism with the Dialectical Historical Materialism method. Fifty seven teachers from the educational network of the county of Russas-CE were interviewed, from April to June 2020, using the Google Forms. We used speech analysis. Of 57 respondents, 50 reported that the level of demand for results that falls on teachers, through the education network, is high, while only 7 reported that the requirement is reasonable. In addition, with an educational policy focused on large-scale exams, 73.7% of respondents reported that the autonomy of teaching work was reduced with the SMAEF policy. The autonomy and appreciation of teaching work enters a path of suppression. Finally, it remains to be seen what kind of children and adolescents we seek to form from this mercantile and meritocratic logic that public education is transforming every day. So that inequalities in opportunities do not perpetuate, we need to modify this scenario and raise the issue of large-scale exam policies to the political, historical and social level.