O programa de formação continuada de professores PDE/PR e a educação popular – 2007-2018

The article analyzes aspects of the continuing education of teachers, aimed at the popular classes, together with the Educational Development Program PDE / PR, a training modality offered by the State of Parana between 2007 and 2018. Based on the Pedagogy of Liberation and Historical Pedagogy - Critical (PHC), the Program served thousands of teachers of basic education, from the state public school system. The research took as sources the official documents, the synopses of the didactic productions of the PDE graduates, the complete didactic productions of six PDE teachers, who intervened in a public school that serves popular classes. The central objective was / is to analyze how the perspective of instruction / formation of popular classes or popular education appeared in the Program. From a dialectic perspective, we list the concepts of Popular Education, Popular Classes, Education and Emancipation, Public School and Historical-Critical Pedagogy and we searched the synopses resulting from the PDE productions. To our surprise, such concepts, practically did not appear, considering the volume of productions. In view of this, we ask ourselves: if the program was configured within a theoretical-critical conception, why and / or how did the words that characterize popular education, aimed at the popular classes, appear so small? We conclude by emphasizing that, although the concepts appeared little, the practice of the PDE teachers, who intervened in the school, contributed to the emancipation of the subjects of the popular classes. In addition, teachers better understood the processes of social constitution that permeate the school context.