The new public management and education in Pernambuco

The training of managers in the center of the management model

Abstract

The New Public Management emerges as a model of public management based on the managerialist approach, with the goal of making the State more efficient, effective, and economical, as well as fostering spaces for greater participation and accountability in the pursuit of results. The NGP has been consolidating itself as a basis for restructuring the systems. Pernambuco promotes training for school managers in its network that materializes a management based on the culture of results, meritocracy and bonuses. The study is based on Social Discourse Analysis. According to Fairclough (2001), the study seeks to understand how discourse structures power relations in society, considering discourse as social practice. The research presents how the government of Pernambuco makes use of discourse mechanisms to hitch the process of teacher participation, in a training course for school managers, in an instrument to build the quality of education in the public network, in a managerialist perspective. This discussion is presented in relevant contexts, as we are experiencing the panorama of external evaluations as the only means of measuring the quality of education in the form of educational indexes. The study analyzes the structure of the program, the measures adopted for education in relation to external evaluations, and how this panorama has reverberated in the organization of school management.