A Prova Brasil e a participação da criança cidadã em uma escola pública de São Miguel dos Campos - AL

Abstract

The study has as central problem, to understand how children of the 5th year of Elementary School in a public school in the municipality of São Miguel dos Campos, State of Alagoas, perceive their participation in educational evaluation policies, specifically the current national policy of wide evaluation. scale, Prova Brasil, and how they understand their place as active and affirmative citizens and subjects. Based on this problem, we outline the general objective of problematizing the participation of children in the initial years of elementary school in a public school in the municipality of São Miguel dos Campos, in the State of Alagoas, specifically the children of the 5th grade "A" and "B ", In the Brazil Competition. The research is qualitative, following the approach of the Case Study and as analysis of the data the Analysis of the Speech of Michel Foucault. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with the children of the 5th years A and B of the initial years of the locus investigated. To do so, we start with Foucault's analysis of governmentality and pastoral power, as well as studies on the history of childhood, public policies for childhood and how children are understood as active citizens, politicians and affirmatives of rights. Our data point to a strong tendency to include uncritically the participation of students in national evaluation policies on a large scale, with repercussions for their learning process and their way of relating in the school environment.