The Paraná educational development program: advances, retrocesses in continuing teacher training

Abstract

In the 21st century, in 2003, the State of Paraná initiated a policy of continuing education that distinguished it from other experiences offered to teachers in the teaching staff. It was the Educational Development Program (PDE), thought and constituted in the government of Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva, whose fundamental characteristic was the dialogue between the University and the Public School, the improvement of Paraná education and professional development. In the government of Carlos Alberto Richa, the vacancies offered were reduced and the PDE-PR suffered structural and budgetary impacts. Almost extinct in 2015, it was to resume in 2018 to select a new PDE – 2019 group, limited to a restricted group of teachers holding masters or doctoral. The discussion presented is supported by documentary and bibliographic research, based on Gatti, Barretto and André (2011), Martins (2010) and Saviani (2011, 2013). The main characteristics of the PDE-PR, in the administration of Requião and Beto Richa, are evidenced, as well as its importance for the improvement of teaching praxis, the valorization of education professionals in a context marked by contradictions of the system political, economic, social and cultural. This study comprises three parts: the first presents the concept of public policy, characteristics of the PDE-PR for teacher education; next, it presents its idealization and implementation in the administration of Roberto Requião and after, of Carlos Alberto Richa,ending the trajectory of this study under the administration Cida Borghetti; finally, the Program's contributions to continuous training and its limitations are pointed out.