Protagonismo juvenil na gestão de políticas públicas educacionais: o caso da superintendência regional de ensino de Araçuaí-MG

Abstract

This dissertation was developed within the scope of the Professional Master's Degree in Management and Evaluation of Public Education, at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. The work seeks to answer the following question: How can the Regional Education Superintendence (SRE) of Araçuaí act to strengthen youth protagonism strategies in the schools under its jurisdiction? The general objective is to analyze the implementation of the actions of the Coordination of Special Themes and Curricular Transversality (CTETC) aimed at youth protagonism in the SRE of Araçuaí and to propose an educational action plan that promotes participation strategies. To this end, it points out as specific objectives: to present the actions to promote youth protagonism in the SRE of Araçuaí; to identify and explain the protagonism actions developed by the SRE of Araçuaí in the schools under its jurisdiction, with their implementation difficulties; to analyze the existing relationships between the protagonism proposed by the SRE of Araçuaí and the actions developed by the schools; and propose an Educational Action Plan that has in its framework strategies to promote youth protagonism within the Regional scope. Regarding the methodology, it is qualitative in nature and uses bibliographic research techniques, documentary analysis, focus groups and semi-structured interviews as research instruments. For the theoretical part, the discussions are centered around youth protagonism and youth and the works of Souza (2006), Silva (2023), Dayrell (2013) and Seba and Bressanin (2021) were adopted, among others. Based on the data generated in the focus groups and interviews with students, principals and education specialists, problems were identified in the monitoring of actions aimed at youth, gaps in communication between SRE of Araçuaí, CTETC and schools and discrepancies between the proposals for Youth actions and their implementation, such as dialogue with students and the establishment of participation mechanisms for students. From this, the Educational Action Plan (PAE) focuses on the creation of a Youth Team at the Araçuaí SRE and the implementation of the Youth Portal, a digital platform for monitoring youth leadership actions in the Region.