Políticas públicas e descentralização: o impacto da municipalização na prática docente

• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, José Luís Feijó
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9523
• topic: Descentralização; Municipalização; Sistemas de ensino; Reformas educacionais; Decentralization; Municipality; Educational systems; Educational reforms; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

Discussions of the decentralization of education in Brazil do not constitute a political or theoretical newness. Since 1980s, and especially in 1990s, the ideological offensive of Neoliberalism on education has gained global proportions, culminating in a series of actions that led to educational reforms in various countries. In Brazil, a crucial aspect of these reforms is the introduction of several actions that have focused the decentralization of national basic education. Municipalization of primary education is one of the most striking features of those actions. Far from being educational democratization, school autonomy or the encouragement to the involvement of local communities, municipalization contributes overwhelming for a further fragmentation of national public education, creating conflicted and competitor educational systems. The importance of this issue for this study consists in the fact that we focus the decentralization of education, despite being a global and common feature in almost all Latin American countries, is also an option of the national bourgeoisie to keep intact the regional differences in the process of forming and schooling Brazilian population. Francisco Morato and São Bernardo do Campo cities are the research field, both of Sao Paulo. In those cities, we could observe the impact of educational municipalization in a city considered poor and another considered wealthy. Those municipalities that belong to the major economic center of Brazil present fragile characteristics of organization, control and management of educational resources. The impact of market pressure in the curricula, formation and career structure of teachers and of the management of these systems is another crucial consequence for the analysis of changes in the educational process. We will see that this is not only the pressure to educate for the skills and competencies necessaries for the Capitalism of the twenty-first century, but also the creation of educational markets, which handle a large amount for the acquisition and sale of materials that determine even the curriculum. In schools, we look at the applied municipalization and the practice of teachers in this universe. The daily life of teachers and their connection with their students are so enlightening for schools regarding curricula prescription and external evaluations that are subject to all students. Educators have to fight against these fragile educational systems or the primary public education will dismantle throughout the country