Abstract

FABRIS, Eli Terezinha Henn. The pedagogy of the hero under the performances of contemporary public policies. Roteiro. UNOESC [online]. 2018, vol.43, n.1, pp.205-223. ISSN 2177-6059.  https://doi.org/10.18593/r.v43i1.13097.

This paper proposes the updating of the pedagogy of the hero, which is both triggered in schools and educational institutions intended for teacher education by means of public policies, and driven by the neoliberal rationality in the global/ local context. The analysis has used data from a doctoral research on Hollywood movies and as well as a group of researches on teacher education using theoretical contributions of educational policies and references about teaching and teacher edu cation from a hypercritical perspective. The study has evidenced that the pedagogy of the hero produces rules for the evaluation process and requires increasingly higher performances from both the teachers and the teacher education institutions in the Brazilian scenario. In this pedagogy, teachers are positioned as heroes, and teaching, through a competitive logic, becomes a qualified activity, which is achieved by means of rewards and good results in large-scale evaluations. As a derivation of this study, some challenges have been presented in an attempt to subvert the effects of that peda gogy. The results have pointed out the need for a constant suspicion of the view of the pedagogy of the hero and contemporary neoliberal public policies, which should be permanently scrutinized by radical criticism.

Keywords : Pedagogy of the Hero; Public Policies; Teachers; Performativity.

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