Accountability e políticas de responsabilização na realidade educacional no Tocantins: tensionamento entre as perspectivas neoliberal e democrática

Abstract

Linked to the State, Society and Educational Practices Research Line of the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Tocantins, the Dissertation addresses theoretical aspects that guide the discussions aimed at understanding public accountability policies, particularly in education, challenging the panorama (s) and the form (s) of accountability in this area, especially in state education in Tocantins. It aims to understand the tension between the different perspectives of accountability, neoliberal and democratic, in the educational reality in Tocantins through accountability policies. It is based on data and information collected through bibliographic review and documentary research. The resulting understanding of the research is based on a perspective that the use of accountability instruments by public administrations should aim at democratizing the process and implementing public policies aimed at improving the quality of education. However, from the bibliographic review and documentary research with state education in Tocantins, the data and information express a tension between these purposes and the neoliberal perspective, with intentions of strategic management, especially with the large-scale evaluations used as instruments of managerial accountability. The conclusions point to a tendency of accountability in a managerial perspective, therefore, with accountability policies and indicative of the use of the results measured in the evaluations more to the managerial purpose. In this sense, large-scale assessments in Tocantins demonstrate a link between state educational policies and the national reality.