Processos de privatização na educação e impactos da pandemia: uma análise da parceria entre Associação Nova Escola e Governo do Estado do Ceará

Abstract

This study investigates the partnership between Associação Nova Escola and the Government of the State of Ceará, established in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. This partnership includes the production of the Material Educacional Nova Escola (MENE), a didactic material aimed initially at Early Childhood Education and the literacy cycle (1st to 3rd grade) of Ceará municipalities, which are monitored within the Programa de Aprendizagem na Idade Certa (PAIC integral). The research aims to understand how privatization processes intensified during the pandemic, identifying the networks of influence that constitute the Ceará educational context. In this sense, the dissertation maps the actors involved in the established partnership, investigating the practices and their modes of intervention in education. An analysis was developed of the themes involving the reform of the State in Brazil, the historical context of the creation of PAIC, accountability policies within PAIC, and privatization during the pandemic period, based on a literature review, whose main authors used were: Ball (2020, 2002), Hypólito (2021, 2019), Verger (2016), Gondim (1994), Albuquerque (2005), Freitas (2012), Tavares (2002), among others. The hermeneutic-dialectical method proposed by Minayo (2022) was also used for data analysis, which understands the internal search for facts, reports, and observations to situate them in the context of the actors in addition to producing a report of the facts. In light of the investigation undertaken, it is understood that the pandemic was a favorable period for privatization processes to expand in Ceará's public education with the insertion of private institutions in the provision of services related mainly to digital platforms. In the study in question, it was observed that the pandemic anticipated a process that had already been occurring, which refers to the incursion of Associação Nova Escola in the field of didactic material production. It was found that Associação Nova Escola used some strategies to convince and encourage teachers to adopt its structured material