Commodification of High School Education in Pará State

• Autor(a) principal: Vale, Cassio
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Fátima Andrade Monteiro dos Santos, Terezinha
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Tear: Revista de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ifrs.edu.br/index.php/tear/article/view/6256

Brazilian state of Pará has defined its educational policy accordingly to the Brazilian federal government proposals, such as entering into public-private partnerships for the betterment of education. On the face of it, this paper aims to reveal which are the strategies aligned with a market-based logic employed by the government to improve quality of high school education, through analyzing the “Pact for Education in Pará state”. Carrying out bibliographical research and document analysis, we found out that such strategies were the "ProEMI", "SEI" and "Mundiar" programs, all of which made use of audiovisual-based classes, altered curriculums and grounded them in corporative prescriptions, reduced the need for teachers in contact with students, replacing them for prerecorded lessons, not to mention other consequences stablished by private groups that enter public spaces and act partnering with the state when formulating educational policy.  Keywords: Pact for Education in Pará state. Public-private partnerships. Commodification of high school education in Pará.