Privatização na Secretaria Municipal de Educação do Rio de Janeiro: expressão do particularismo do capital na formação docente (2016-2024)

Abstract

This study investigates the partnerships established by the Municipal Department of Education of Rio de Janeiro (SME-RJ) for the continuing education of teachers between 2016 and 2024. It examines contracts and other agreements signed during this period whose purpose is teacher training, through a critical analysis of documents (Evangelista; Shiroma, 2019), emphasizing their ideological forms (Marx, 2008; Gramsci, 1999). The research highlights the issue of the insertion of private organizations into public education within the neoliberal historical bloc and the particularities of the city of Rio de Janeiro, with special attention to the municipal secretaries of education over the last ten years. It analyzes the content of these partnerships, establishes connections between contracted companies and social organizations, and explores the economic benefits of organizations operating within public education. Under the justification of improving quality and reducing inequalities, learning outcomes have increasingly gained centrality in teacher training, while the emphasis on goals and results has reoriented school work in ways that undermine teaching labor. School management has become a major target of these significant transformations. The dissertation concludes that investigating the particular case of SME-RJ contributes to the analysis of the movement of capital within public basic education and that teacher training constitutes an essential element in the critique of the privatization of education.