HISTÓRIA E POLÍTICA DE FORMAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES: O CEFAM NO ESTADO DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL (1989-1996)

Abstract

The present research work is part of the Research Line History, Policy and Education, Graduate Program in Education, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). Its object was the Specific Education and Improvement Center for the Magisterium (CEFAM) in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The general objective was to map and analyze the implementation and expansion of CEFAM as an education policy designed for of 2nd teachers, in the period 1989-1996, in the municipalities of Campo Grande, Ponta Porã, Jardim, Três Lagoas, Coxim and Aquidauana, by considering the multiple relationships detected in the material base. The of the thesis was that CEFAM contributed to the initial and continuing education, at secondary level, of teachers who worked in the initial years of elementary school, especially in the cities where the expansion of the 1st degree education was necessary for the development of the newly created state. The procedures adopted were bibliographic research and documentary research. The sources included reports, minutes, classroom diaries, employee time tracking sheets, enrollment records, diplomas, certificates, student records, photographs, resolutions, legal opinions, pedagogical projects, newspaper articles found in public archives of the schools visited, Legislative Council Archive of Mato Grosso do Sul, State Archive of Mato Grosso do Sul, Public Record Office of Mato Grosso, Historical Archive of Campo Grande, State Council of Education of Mato Grosso do Sul, and the library of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. The results indicated that CEFAM, at the time of its implementation and expansion in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, from 1989 to 1996, intended to qualify the teachers who worked with Preschool and 1st grade pupils. The Center was part of the Program for the Improvement of 2nd degree education implemented by the Secretary of Education of the State of Mato Grosso Sul. It faced obstacles generated in material basis issues, such as: the state’s political and economic fragility, lack of qualified teachers, and precariousness of the teaching profession, factors that were also observed nationwide. Revealed that CEFAM, especially in the non-capital cities in Mato Grosso do Sul, contributed to the qualification of teachers, within the material conditions of every locality. In its proposal, CEFAM’s differential was the articulation with Higher Education, but the documentary sources showed that only the CEFAMs of the municipalities of Três Lagoas and Coxim implemented this action. In the remaining municipalities, there was no evidence that CEFAM presented a differentiated education to its students, as the same teachers from the Specific Teaching Qualification Center (HEM) also worked at CEFAM, which leads to the conclusion that both CEFAM and HEM, despite their political, social and economic constraints, contributed to the qualification of teachers who worked in public schools in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, as well as to the expansion of 1st degree education.