Teachers’ transfer and inequalities in vulnerable areas

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Luciana
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Padilha, Frederica, Batista, Antônio Augusto Gomes, Érnica, Maurício, de Carvalho-Silva, Hamilton Harley
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Cenpec (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.cenpec.org.br/cadernos/index.php/cadernos/article/view/292
• topic: Teachers’s transfer. Social vulnerability. Area.; Educação.; Remoção de professores. Vulnerabilidade social. Território.

The article investigates one of the mechanisms by which socio-spatial inequalities interfere with schools operating in vulnerable areas, in this case concerning teacher allocation in municipal schools in the district of São Miguel Paulista (SMP), São Paulo. In order to verify the supposition that teachers as a rule migrate to schools in less vulnerable neighborhoods at which students have more social and cultural resources, we have analysed data of transfer applications from 2006 to 2011 for teachers working in Elementary School first years, available in the City of São Paulo official newspaper. Results show that schools located in less vulnerable areas and concentrating more resourceful students attract teachers who have achieved better positions in their career. Schools with opposite characteristics get less successful teachers.