The desire for the Institutional Teaching Initiation Scholarship Program (Pibid) to continue, threatened by the political and economic crisis in the country, was echoed in the speeches of the authorities who participated this Wednesday morning (22) in three joint events in the main hall from the Education University (FE): the II Pibid Unicamp Seminar, the II Seminar Experiences in Teaching Internship and the XIII Meeting of Undergraduate Students of Teacher Training Courses. Professor Guilherme do Val Toledo Prado, institutional coordinator of Pibid, lamented that this program could end the trajectory of 1.370 scholarship holders, 84 supervisors, 44 University coordinators, 49 public schools, etc. “May this successful program, since 2010, continue and may this event mark the fight for the continuity of the program”, he stated.
The director of FE, professor Dirce Zan, recognized that the drop in resources brings a warning to do something to avoid losing a project like Pibid and took the opportunity to express her college's unfavorable position towards the Escola Sem Partido movement, "due to the restriction of critical thinking". Next, professor Ana Archangelo highlighted that the latest MEC census states in its narrative that, “in terms of factors that can be controlled, the teacher is the one who has the most weight”. She was still surprised that the role of the public university was not addressed in this document. “I realized that the proposal is to increase distance learning. With this, we will be a tiny portion,” she stated. She also commented that the World Bank report highlights that public universities should not be for the elites, but that, if they are, they need to be paid for. “We are trying to navigate a countercurrent and we need to face these movements that arrive in an overwhelming way.”
The dean of Unicamp, professor Marcelo Knobel, also alluded to the World Bank report, entitled A Fair Adjustment. He said that the possibility of ending free public education is worrying. “I feel like we are entrenched here. We need to invest in communication so that this information reaches society.” For professor Eliana Ayoub, from the event's organizing committee, thinking about public schools in these difficult times requires openness to training in effective dialogue. Professor Nima Spigolon, mediator of the first round table of the day, maintained that the public university must have a commitment to the political agenda, going further when discussing teacher training and going beyond the human aspect. "Training alone is not enough. This is also a pedagogical agenda", she highlighted.
FE teacher Maria Inês Petrucci, vice-president of the Permanent Teacher Training Committee (CPFP), stressed that looking at teachers' life stories is important for their training, not just practice as a curricular component. Maria Inês said that she has been guiding internships for 25 years. She believes that the internship is not just a place for applying theory, but rather for knowledge. "My belief is that the curriculum advances and even goes beyond rationalities."
See programming of the event, which runs until the 24th and includes the launch of the eighth work on Pibid Unicamp projects. There are 15 articles that provide a general overview of Unicamp's Pibid projects. The collection is available on CPFP website, which can be downloaded in PDF and e-Book version. read text published on Unicamp website.
