Pibid: new proposal, old ideas

Abstract

Institutional Program for Scholarships for Beginner Teachers in Brazil (PIBID - Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência), a successful public policy for initial training, has undergone an institutional modernization since 2017. Therefore, we chose as the objective of this article to identify and understand the continuities and ruptures between the 61/2013 and 7/2018 public notices from the understanding of its modernization. By carrying out documentary research with primary written sources anchored in the dialectical method, considering the contexts and articulations in the movement of reality that the documents are inserted. Its new configuration highlighted on the 7/2018 call, which was substantially modified the structure developed until the previous call 61/2013, which accumulated a trajectory of struggles for program improvements. From our analyzes and discussions, we can say that PIBID was instrumentalized and leveled as one of the faces of business reform in education. Therefore, its “modernization” can be characterized as an alignment with this education reform. PIBID is powerful, and changes cannot be made about us and against us, making the participation of the subjects which build it imperative. Therefore, our understanding considers that it is necessary to add to the struggle within the program with guarantees in the letters of the law that regulate the program, as well as propose the incorporation of the broader collective efforts of our profession.