Curricular policy standardization, control, and accountability in the state of São Paulo (2007-2018)

Author(s)

Márcia Aparecida Jacomini ^[1] ; Silvio Ricardo Gomes Carneiro ^[2] ; Ana Carolina Colacioppo Rodrigues ^[3] ; Raphael Bueno Bernardo da Silva ^[4]

Affiliation

^[1] Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Brasil

^[2] Universidade Federal do ABC - Brasil

^[3] Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - Brasil

^[4] Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo - Brasil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Rev. Bras. Educ.; v. 26, 2021-11-19.

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the curricular policies implemented in the education system of the state of São Paulo between 2007 and 2018, in order to understand their senses and meanings. In 2007, a standardized curricular model for São Paulo was implemented alongside a system including student performance evaluations and bonuses for teachers. Documents consulted in the elaboration of this paper reveal the genesis of this curricular policy model in the 1990s, a process that would culminate with the implementation of the São Paulo Faz Escola Program in 2007 and, later, in 2012, of the Escola Integral Program. Both programs are attempts to reshape schools through a modern curriculum based on a pedagogy of skills and competencies. These curricular policies reproduce a “new agenda” of public policies, which has been supported by the tripod of accountability, control, and standardization, changing the sense of quality of education, reduced to the scope of “learning”. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 18/09983-0 - Educational policy in the teaching state network of São Paulo (1995 to 2018)
• Grantee: Márcia Aparecida Jacomini
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants