A educação na reestruturação produtiva do capital: um estudo sobre as reformas educativas e seu impacto no trabalho docente na Rede Estadual de Ensino de Minas Gerais (2003-2008)

Abstract

This research aims at analyzing the new measures that teaching work has been taking on in the State-Owned Teaching Schools in Minas Gerais, from 2003 to 2008, bearing in mind that the educational policies pursued during this period by the Aécio Neves Government in line with the broader principles that guide the reform of the institutional apparatus in the State, known as Shock Management have been creating a great impact on the teachers work at the State-Owned Schools of Minas Gerais. Bibliographic research and documental analysis have been used which contextualize the recent restructure carried out in the capitalist way of production, highlighting the changes occurred in the political sphere, in the world labor market as well as in the educational field, approaching the new functions attributed to the teaching work in the context of the educational reforms with neo-liberal inspiration. This research also analyses the strong points of Shock Management, identifying the breaks and continuities of the implemented policies in the State of Minas Gerais over the past two decades of the twentieth century and onwards. Finally, a survey of the educational measures undertaken by Neves have been carried out as well as their rationale, and this had the aim of elucidating how such actions and principles have been affecting the shape of the teaching work in the State-Owned Teaching Schools of Minas Gerais, all of which regarding both the school organization work and the process that rule teaching remuneration and career. The results have shown that, through contradiction professionalization/precarization, great efforts have been made in order to give new dimensions to the teaching work, thus adjusting teachers to the current societal standards and, at the same time, electing teaching as the privilege locus, by the potential dissemination, to reaffirm the pertinent values to the hegemonic neo-liberal thinking.