Para além da busca por resultados : o discurso da Nova Gestão Pública e a construção da subjetividade docente

Abstract

The research developed here aims to reflect on the construction of teaching subjectivity before the neoliberal discourse of New Public Management. Therefore, we seek to start from the immediate consequences of NPM, such as the new professionalism and performativity, to question the influences of the “quality education” discourse, focused on results management, in the constitution of the subjectivity of these professors. The theoretical framework of the research is guided by four main axes that consider, respectively, educational policies as a discourse; global and local guidelines for “quality education”; the developments of NPM in the construction of teaching subjectivity and the influences of NPM discourse on teaching work in Pernambuco. The work configures itself as a reading of the post-structuralist approach, which tries to break with the theoretical limitations of macro-micro to think global education guidelines and their influences and transnational interferences, as a path to a specific situation. The proposal launched is a theoretical and empirical work, with a snowball sample that aims to build data from in-depth narrative interviews made possible by the internet. The research subjects are six teachers of Portuguese and Mathematics from public high schools in the state of Pernambuco. The data are analyzed with reference to the foucauldian discourse analysis. Therefore, it presents the dimensions of the discourse around the construction of teaching subjectivity and the discourse around assessments, as a way of understanding the repercussions of this discourse on the constitution of being and doing as teachers.