The reforms, organized and supported by international agencies, reduced the role of the State, introduced economic concepts to school management and delegated the responsibility towards educational actions to the characters responsible for the success or failure of such changes. In this context, new ways of controlling teaching practices started to be used by the school system such as external assessments, imposition of formatted projects by superior bodies and payment of bonus to the education workers. This article results from an empirical research carried out between 2006 and 2008 and is aimed at presenting the analysis of the school and the teaching practices from the point of view of 30 teachers from three different regions of the state of São Paulo. The results show the strong impact of management elements on the teachers' daily practices contributing for their feeling of unease and blame due to the failure of reformed projects.
Educational Reforms; Teaching Practices; Management