Formação docente e altas habilidades/superdotação: a ênfase do empresário de si e do capital humano nas políticas educacionais

Abstract

This research aims to understand the effects of neoliberal rationality on continuing teacher training policies for specialized educational services in high abilities/giftedness, under the imperative of inclusion. This is research guided by a post-critical epistemological approach, of a qualitative nature, using bibliographic and documentary research as research support. The analyzes undertaken are based on Foucauldian studies in Education, highlighting biopolitics as a theoretical-methodological tool. The documentary corpus consists of international and national educational policies from the state of Santa Catarina and continuing training courses for Basic Education teachers, with an emphasis on high skills/giftedness. The analytical exercise undertaken on the materials allowed the understanding of educational policies for the continued training of teachers as biopolitical strategies that seek to subjectivize the conduct of the self-entrepreneur in the subjects. It was noticed that educational policies exercise two investment practices in human capital in the contemporary context. The first practice is carried out by the subject himself, who is responsible for capitalizing on skills necessary from the neoliberal perspective, to remain competitive in the economic game. The second practice is carried out through State intervention. In it, the State promotes teaching human capital, through continuing training courses, which aim to create specialists for specialized educational services for individuals with high skills/giftedness. It is concluded that contemporary educational policies move, control and guide the conduct of the self-entrepreneur over teachers, in addition to establishing an expert specialist in the action of identifying, but, above all, enhancing the abilities of individuals with high abilities/giftedness. Both investment practices in human capital are important for maintaining neoliberal gears and interests in Contemporary Times.