THE PROCESSES OF (DE)PROFESSIONALIZATION OF TEACHERS UNDER THE FORMATIVE PARADIGM OF PRIVATE HEGEMONIC APPARATUSES: analyzing an Experience in the Midwest
Teacher Professionalization; Privatization of Education; Private Hegemonic Apparatuses; Teacher Training; Literacy
This research, linked to the Teaching Profession, Curriculum, and Evaluation (PDCA) Line of the Graduate Program in Education at the University of Brasília, aims to understand the process of professionalization of teachers in the Early Years of Elementary Education by analyzing the mechanisms of privatization of Private Hegemony Apparatuses (PHA). Based on Gramsci's work, the concept of "hegemonic apparatus" is related to state articulation, aimed at reproducing a class. The study identifies the role of PHAs in the state network of Goiás, particularly in the AlfaMais Goiás Literacy Program. With a qualitative approach and documentary research, the methodology includes a literature review on teacher professionalization and its transformations over time (Shiroma; Evangelista, 2010). The authors that underpin the analysis include Shiroma, Evangelista, Freidson, and Laval, addressing the dialectical pair of professionalization/desprofessionalization and the processes of privatization in education. The research contextualizes teacher training policies from 2010 to 2023, analyzing the State Program AlfaMais Goiás in collaboration with PHAs. The results indicate that the Associação Bem Comum (ABC) exerts a hegemonic influence on literacy policies, justifying its presence in state public networks by seeking improvements in education quality. However, privatization is advancing in basic education, affecting teachers' professional trajectories. Business principles influence training processes, promoting short-term training and meritocracy, resulting in desprofessionalization and a decrease in teachers' autonomy in Literacy Classes