Policies for Continuing Education and Teacher Professional Development: a strategy of corporate neoliberal governmentality

Abstract

The article problematizes the idea of teacher professional development - TPD, from the perspective of neoliberal rationality. It seeks to demonstrate how initiatives in the field of public policies drive actions toward corporate governmentality (DARDOT; LAVAL, 2016). To this end, a document produced by the UNDIME, CONSED, Fundação Carlos Chagas, and Profissão Docente in partnership with the Ministry of Education aiming to guide cities and states toward establishing professional development matrices for teachers of Basic Education from the Common National Base for the Continuing Training of K-12 Teachers. The artifact under analysis is characterized by a conception of teacher professional development centered on regulatory and self-regulation practices necessary for constructing the neoliberal subject or neo-subject. In this sense, the study identifies mentoring approach for managing continuing education and TPD, establishing action protocols for teaching work.