Política Supranacional de Formação de Professores: o Programa Escolas Interculturais de Fronteira (PEIF) na faixa de fronteira Brasil/Paraguai

Abstract

This thesis has as object of study the Intercultural Frontier Schools Program (PEIF), understood as a supranational policy on the Brazilian border with Paraguay, but specifically in the town of Ponta Porã, located in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul with Pedro Juan Caballero, in Paraguay. The research problem was synthesized in the following question: what are the contributions of PEIF to the continuous training of frontier schoolteachers in regional integration and multilingualism? The aim of the research is to analyze the PEIF as a supranational policy of continuing education for teachers with a view to regional integration and multilingualism. In methodological terms, the thesis proposes the evaluation of an educational policy and its possible impacts (BAKER, 2000), therefore made use of documentary research (CELLARD, 2014) and content analysis (BARDIN, 2016). In order to support the theoretical surveys, interviews were conducted (DUARTE, 2004) with the former coordinator of the PEIF/MEC, the former coordinator of the PEIF/UFGD and the school‘s direction of the João Brembatti Calvoso State School, as well as a focal group (MORGAN, 1988) composed of seven professionals, among them: teachers, articulator, tutor and pedagogical coordination involved in the execution of the Program in the researched school. In order to carry out the analysis of the interviews and the focal group, we chose to classify the information into three categories (SALDAÑA, 2013), which are: financing and curricular organization, regional integration and policy of continuous teacher training. Given the scenario presented by the categories and the relation established with the literature in the area, it can be considered that the PEIF was ineffective as a policy of continuous teacher training in the frontier researched for failing to point out significant contributions to the regional integration process and to the development of multilingualism.