Pedagogy in times of accountability: analysis of the teaching Portfolio in Chile

ABSTRACT:

Chile has carried out a series of educational reforms with a particular emphasis on efficiency and accountability. The objective of this work was to analyze what type of pedagogy emerges from the management tool called teaching portfolio. For this work a thematic analysis was carried out following the perspective of discursive psychology. Results show that from this instrument emerges a pedagogy that: 1) is the individual responsibility of the teacher; 2) is constituted as a methodological technique; 3) reveals a unidirectional interaction in the classroom; 4) a collaborative pedagogy emerges, understood as instances of dialogue among teachers, regarding their work in the classroom. Results are discussed considering other alternatives in the understanding of pedagogy.

Keywords:
New public management; Education; Management instruments; Performance; Teacher work