The Mais Educação (More Education) Program as Full-Time School Policy for Quality in Education

Abstract

In this paper, we bring the contribution
of the New Rhetoric theory to examine discourses about the Programa
Mais Educação (More Education Program) proposed by the Brazilian
Federal Government as a model of a full-time school for basic education
and like a path traced by public policies to achieve goals of quality education.
We use the index proposed by Cavaliere to evaluate the full-time
school from the increment of its pedagogical practices. We conclude that
the program is best suited like a strategy of tutoring students than like an
improvement within the school pedagogies and may be impeding the discussions
about full-time school and the quality education.