Abstract

SFREDO, Marta Luiza  and  SILVA, Roberto Rafael Dias da. Pedagogical efficiency and the Brazilian development project: fundamentals of ‘neo-teaching’ in secondary education. Acta Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.43, e48270.  Epub Sep 01, 2021. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v43i1.48270.

This article discusses the relation between the developmental project, designed for the country in the 1950s and 1960s, and the high school, based on the ideology of modernization oriented to social and economic progress, which emphasizes teaching as an element able of making possible the intended changes, according to the precepts of the theory of Human Capital. For this, the methodology used involved documental analysis, according to the assumptions of Cellard (2008), having as methodological-interpretative principles Popkewitz’s (1997) theorizations, involving ‘social epistemology’. Based on these notes, three printed materials intended for secondary school teachers were analyzed: the Escola Secundária Magazine, published between 1958 and 1963, and the books Manual do Professor Secundário, by Theobaldo Miranda Santos, published in 1961 and Escola Secundária Moderna, by Lauro de Oliveira Lima, published in 1962. The research results indicate the emergence of new rationales for teaching secondary education in Brazil, which we call ‘neo-teaching’, based on the imperatives of economic development, following the corporate molds of performativity, competitiveness, and permanent innovation. Such configurations, derived from the neoliberal economicist perspective, position the teacher as a facilitator of learning, based on the ideal of modernization and renewal of teaching, oriented towards pedagogical efficiency.

Keywords : high school; teaching; modernization; efficiency.

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