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SCIENCE TEACHER'S REACTIONS TO THE NEW CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION IN SÃO PAULO'S STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

ABSTRACT:

This research conducted from 2009 to 2013 aimed to investigate how science teachers of the public school's state system in São Paulo reacted to the implementation of a new curriculum proposal for elementary school. We adopted a qualitative approach in the research development, conducting semi-structured interviews analyzed from the content analysis perspective, trying to give voice to the curriculum´s agents, and from Sacristan's ideas, particularly regarding relationship between formal curriculum and teachers' actions. In this article, teachers' reactionstothe new proposal are presented and their positions are analyzed, beingfavorable; unfavorable; orpragmatic.

Keywords:
Curriculum; Teacher'seducation; Publicpolicies.

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