Pibid e Pnaic: institutional implementation arrangements with university and school partnerships

Abstract

This article presents a comparative study of two Brazilian public educational policies aimed at valuing the teaching profession and encouraging teacher training: the Institutional Teaching Initiation Scholarship Program (Pibid, in Portuguese), aimed at the initial training of undergraduates, and the National Pact for Literacy at the Right Age (Pnaic, in Portuguese), focusing on the continuing training of literacy teachers. Using the approach of institutional implementation arrangements and the concepts of the third space and the teacher training triangle as a theoretical and methodological reference, we investigated how their institutional implementation arrangements were configured, focusing on governance, state political capacities and their main instruments, and the teacher training models involved in these arrangements. This is a comparative study with a qualitative approach, based on case studies of these programs at two federal universities. The main results point to similarities between Pibid and Pnaic in their governance structures and the role of universities in their implementation. Between 2017 and 2018, these programs experienced important changes in terms of formulation associated with the political context within Education Ministry (MEC, in Portuguese) and Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Staff (Capes, in Portuguese). In their arrangements, the changes coincided in time frames and in the effects of political capacities. However, in the contexts investigated, we observed innovations for the continuity of the programs associated with previous experiences of the implementers at these universities, which pointed to more fruitful results when there were closer links between universities and schools.