O Plano Nacional de Educação e os desafios para a elaboração dos Planos Municipais de Educação

Abstract

The research aims to analyze the impact of the new National Education Plan (PNE-2014-2024) on municipal management, focusing on the elaboration of Municipal Education Plans (PME) of two municipalities belonging to the National Union of Municipal Education Directors (UNDIME) of a region in the interior of the state of São Paulo. The study focuses on the following objectives: describe the process of preparing SMEs and investigate the limits and possibilities of actions of municipalities in the construction of their educational documents. The aim of this study was to understand the contradictions emanating from a process based on democratic principles that, paradoxically, develop mechanisms to control the action of the subjects in the definition of predetermined goals. In this sense, the work is structured in the construction of data relevant to the understanding of the subject, in the collection and analysis of data that make possible the understanding of the process of elaboration of the municipal plans, considering the diverse forms of mobilization, the proposals elaborated and the decision-making processes. This research was based on a so-called meso-analytic approach, whose intention is to direct the focus of the study to the action of the subjects within the systems, in order to understand the strategies created by them and used in the materialization of municipal educational policies. For that, a qualitative study was carried out in two municipalities of medium and small size in a region of the interior of São Paulo. The research data were obtained through documental and bibliographic analysis, partially structured interviews and questionnaires applied to the SME commission of the municipalities investigated. Concerning the elaboration of the municipal education documents, it is perceived that, in a course guided by bureaucratic principles, there was a "normative infidelity" regarding the organicity of educational policy. Although the process was guided by social participation, the speed in the development of SMEs and the alleged autonomy delegated to municipalities weakened the democratic principle of education.