Implementation of the Programa Criança Alfabetizada (PCA): effects over literacy teachers’ performance from the public education system of the Panelas-PE municipality.
Literacy. Programa Criança Alfabetizada. Parceria pela Alfabetização em Regime de Colaboração. Street-level bureaucracy. Implementation assessment.
This master’s degree research project aims to investigate the effects of the Programa Criança Alfabetizada (PCA) over literacy teachers’ performance from the public education system of the Panelas municipality, in the state of Pernambuco. It consists of a public policy assessment based on the theoretical framework of the street-level bureaucracy, as developed by Michael Lipsky (2019). From the methodological point of view, a sequential mixed approach will be employed. In the first phase, which is of quantitative nature, an online form will be applied to a group of teachers. Following, in the qualitative phase, a set of approximately four semistructured interviews will also be applied to the teachers. The goal is to lighten and deepen the analysis of the results presented by the forms. The results were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics tools as well as content analysis (BARDIN, 2016; SALDAÑA, 2013) and, thus, were discussed in an integrated fashion. It was found that the teachers accept both the program in general and its five main axes in particular. In addition, the teachers consider that PCA – pecially when it comes to the external evaluation axes, the Distinctive School Award and strengthening of school management – positively influences their work, increasing the motivation of the educational teams, bringing school management closer to the reality of literacy teachers and articulating the whole municipal network around the goal of improving the students’ learning indicators. According to a formative perspective of public policy evaluation, it is hoped that the results of the present research may subside enhancements and adjustments on the execution of PCA in municipalities of Pernambuco, thus contributing to improve the quality of the literacy in such state.