Programas PDE escola e mais educação: descentralização e gestão do ensino

Abstract

This thesis analyses PDE Escola and Mais Educação programmes between 2007 and 2012, with basis on the hypothesis that these programmes induce changes within public school management. It aimed to know the clues for changes which took place within the municipal school network of Juiz de Fora after the implementation of such programmes. The choice for analyzing the pathway that the policy has followed until the school has broadened our view on itself as well as the empirical scope of this research. This study has comprised school and school network management, the municipal educational system and some of the Ministry of Education sectors. The methodology include semi-structured interviews, documental analysis, qualitative data collecting and school observation. The theoretical background, which comprehended the financial support to schooling, right to education and school management, focused on guaranteeing schooling quality, which is the main objective of the Education Development Plan (PDE), which gave rise to the programmes analysed. By investigating the implementation process for these programmes, it was found that the State centralizes primary school policies under the excuse of providing technical and financial support to the city. Such process, however, is weakened by the capillarisation of the State actions into other government levels schools. These actions, in turn, are detrimental to the competence by the State in strengthening the school systems. In this process, school changes are due to supply, by the State, of existing material demands, appropriation of these resources through its adequacy to the school culture and confront of challenges posed in the fields of continued formation, participation and infrastructure. From these challenges emerge possibilities for recognition of power condition on school institution, which, although perceived, is not yet inserted in a participatory perspective capable to lead changes in the school context, especially in the work of planning within school and government spheres.