The Logos II Project in Rondonia: the implementation of the pilot project and the changes in its political and educational organization

Author(s)

Cristiane Talita Gromann Gouveia

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Rio Claro. 2016-02-05.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Instituto de Biociências. Rio Claro
• Defense date: 2016-01-28
• Advisor: Arlete de Jesus Brito

Abstract

In the 1970s, in some states of Brazil, the Project Logos II was implemented, aiming at rapidly training teachers who were laymen, certified to teach having only completed their secondary education. The program worked with a modular system and had a diverse and flexible plan of activities, in which the students were able to establish their own learning pace. There were monthly meetings with the educational advisor, when the application of tests also took place. In the state of Rondônia (former Federal Territory of Rondônia), surveys show that the project was developed between the 1970s and the 1990s. So, the questions that guide this research are: how was the implementation of the pilot project and what were the changes in the political and pedagogical organization of the Project Logos II in Rondônia? This way, the study that we propose aims at developing a historical interpretation of the implementation and execution of the pilot project of the Logos II in the state of Rondônia and at analyzing the changes in its political and pedagogical organization over the time. The research is placed in the area of the History of Education, with emphasis on teacher training, and follows, in historiography, the “Cultural History” movement and has as its theoretical contributions, mainly, Carlo Ginzburg’s paradigm of evidence, Peter Burke’s “cultural history” concept, Marc Bloch’s documentary criticism, the document/monument as in Jacques Le Goff and, finally, Maurice Halbwachs’ theories on the various types of memory. Taken as historical sources were the laws, the enrollment records, the school transcripts, the diplomas, the modules, photos of students and teachers, as well as other documents and interviews that were conducted among students, teachers and coordinators in the city of Vilhena-RO. As a main result, we concluded that there was a shift in the profile of the project between the period of the Military Dictatorship, with centralized control, and of the New Republic, based on democratic values, which influenced the decentralization of the Logos II, withdrawing responsibility from the Federal Government and passing it on to the states. Over the time, the project, which was initially based on the Taylorist/Fordist technicist model, followed the flow of changes in the national education and started to adopt the characteristics of the Toyotism. In Logos II, we saw the evidences of the use of the Toyotism in various aspects as, for example, in quality control by the means of comprehensive tests. In the structure of the project, there were changes in the functions of the teaching supervisor and of the learning advisor, which merged into a single position. The contents of the modules went through readjustments as Ministry of Education and the CETEB realized its necessity. In the beginning of the project, the internship program was supervised, then it became unsupervised, counting on the support from the Pedagogical Meetings and the microteaching, subsequently, it became supervised again - however, as a fusion of the two previous models. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/01638-1 - The Logos Project II and the formation of lay teachers in Rondônia
• Grantee: Cristiane Talita Gromann de Gouveia
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master