EDUCATIONAL INDICATORS AS STRATEGIES: KEYS TO UNDERSTAND THE NEW GOVERNMENTALITY IN CONTINUOUS TEACHER TRAINING

Abstract

This work presents a study about the offer of continuous training courses for teachers who work in elementary education in the Rede Municipal de Ensino (Municipal Education Network) of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, which present the educational indicators as goals for their offering. The object of study is the 2000-2013 period, and the text shows as methodology the theorizations that integrate Foucault’s studies area. The  sources of analysis are: the course planning records, interviews with teachers, field journal of course observations, and documents that regulate the continuous teacher education policy at the national and municipal scope. It concludes that the course offer produces teaching subjectivities based on the accountability for successes and failures, limited by effectiveness or ineffectiveness to reach the structured results around goals, taking a competition based on educational indicators as a scenario.