In terms of study, does digital replace print? This is the controversy of the hour, sparked by the seemingly unilateral decision by the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio Freitas, to provide students from the sixth of elementary school onwards 'only' textbooks fingerprints.
The determination of the highest authority of the richest state in the country provoked an immediate reaction from local educators, especially after the announcement by the Secretary of Education paulista, that he would also be 'giving up' to participate in the National Textbook Program (PNLD), through which textbooks would be purchased with the funds from the National Education Development Fund (FNDE), linked to the Ministry of Education (MEC), a measure that gives the impression of a more political nature than professional.
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Meanwhile, Freitas' deliberations were met with wide disapproval in the milieu. Considering the episode “lamentable”, the professor from Unicamp and UFBA (Federal University of Bahia), Theresa Adrião comments: “Although the PNLD has suffered from interference and mistakes by the previous management of the MEC, the logic of the program, which delegates to professors the option for the didactic material that best fits adjustment to the pedagogical project of each school, has been an important strategy", adding that "the PNLD places the school at the center of the process decisive”.
Regarding the questionable criterion of using, in the learning process, only digital textbooks, the educator – also a policy researcher education and coordinator of the Latin American Network of Researchers in Privatization of Education – understands that the measure “goes against the grain of what research has indicated".
Based on the observation that “access to digital resources is unequally distributed across territories”, Theresa claims that it is “unnecessary to remember all the difficulties experienced by populations from the outskirts to access the internet”, not to mention the fact that “the subordination of pedagogical processes to digital platforms depersonalizes the necessary relationship between teachers and students”.
In the same direction, the president of the Singularidades Institute, for training educators, and director of the Center for Educational Policies of FGV, Cláudia Costin, admits to being “very concerned and hoping that the secretary [of Education of the state, Renato Feder] will review this decision. Today I must talk to him about it, ”she said.
Also founder and director of the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Educational Policies and visiting professor at the Harvard School of Education, Cláudia also points out, that “there is concern about how students who do not have computers will study at home, taking into account that the printed book is essential for greater student retention. apprenticeship".
More incisive in the face of the attitude of Palácio dos Bandeirantes, the Union of Official Education Teachers of the State of São Paulo (Apeoesp) he added that he intends to ask the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP-SP) to investigate the decision of the São Paulo government, in addition to requesting clarification from the secretary (Feder) about non-adherence to the PNLD and request the MEC to report on the amount of resources dispensed by the Executive state.