Abstract

TEDESCHI, Sirley Lizott  and  PAVAN, Ruth. Large-scale evaluations as a biopolitical and disciplinary power device. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2020, vol.45, e35702.  Epub Aug 30, 2023. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644435702.

In this paper, we address large-scale evaluations. This analysis has stemmed from a research involving a semi-structured interview with 6th-9th grade teachers of a public state school with high Basic Education Development Index (IDEB). In order to analyze the teachers’ statements, we resorted to post-structuralist studies. Firstly, we problematize the large-scale evaluations and their pretension of both being assumed as one of the current education “truths” and measuring the education “quality”. Secondly, we show the large-scale evaluations as a disciplinary and biopolitical power device. By adopting procedures of disciplinary power and biopolitics for controlling and normalizing the school subjects, these evaluations have forced the curriculum standardization and faced teachers and students’ resistance movements, which potentialize other ways of thinking about evaluation, curriculum and educational processes in the school context.

Keywords : Large-scale evaluation; Curriculum; Power..

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