Teaching professionality, culture capital and capacity building: the pedagogical-coordinator teacher in São Paulo State schools

• Grant number: 06/00977-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2006
• End date: December 31, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Specific topics in Education
• Principal Investigator: Maria Helena Galvao Frem Dias-Da-Silva
• Grantee: Maria José da Silva Fernandes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The implementation of pedagogical coordinator function (PCP) at public state schools in São Paulo is problematized based on results obtained from a previous study (Fernandes, 2004) based on both a bibliographical-documental research to explain the trajectory of this activity in São Paulo schools and on some analyses of recent researches about this job, analyzing the educational reforms for the constitution of teacher professionality, pointing out the main difficulties on daily work of the PCPs and some successful traits of this function . Emphasizing the importance of teacher development and teacher education , we recognize that the PCP formation lies beyond a university certificate and involves cultural, intellectual, professional, organizational, political and even personal aspects, which permit them both the appropriation of specific knowledge and knowledge that involves school culture and individual cultural capital itself. Under Brazilian educational context which shows a subtle game between technicism and neoliberalism getting along with educational progressive ideas , this doctoral dissertation project intends to investigate teacher development and professionality aspects related to PCP’s successful work. An empirical research on qualitative basis will be done , including heavy interviews and day-by-day observation, with six sucessful Middle and High School PCPs , from three different school counties, emphasizing the analyses of the professional development, highlighted by Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural capital concept , looking into explicative elements of sucess in their lives.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

FERNANDES, Maria José da Silva. A coordenação pedagógica em face das reformas escolares paulista (1996-2007). 2008. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Araraquara Araraquara.