O projeto Escola viva, comunidade ativa como política educacional mineira

Abstract

This research seeks to discuss the limits and contingencies of people s social and political partaking in the educational context through the implementing of EVCA program (Escola Viva, Comunidade Ativa; that is, Living School, Active Community), which represents a fragment of educational policy in Minas Gerais state. The essence of EVCA lies on the expansion of leisure, sports and cultural spaces within schools and a greater involvement of community with it. Understand the scenario framing individuals participation in the educational context in this work requires reconsidering society s liberal ideal s fundaments, variations in the liberal thought, and the relationship between the economic field and the parallel movement performed by the capital. Another relevant variant is a close exploration of the bases societal model is built upon and supported by a number of arrangements known to be elitist. We try to show how the state intertwines with civil society to stimulate a greater involvement and participation in the public policies world. As a methodological procedure we employed the dialectic analysis with a focus on the links between microstructures and a whole which is changing constantly. To do so, we relied on bibliographical studies and document analyzing. Results point out both the difficulty to make a genuinely democratic program to be effective in education and a replacement of political partaking by a social one which is produced by new arrangements and which delimit, educate and direct such a participation so that to involve civil society and the state. In making a detailed analysis of EVCA program, we note how economic conditionings are overlapped in its reality, especially as to meet different demands and aims. That is why EVCA faces difficult to make itself steady as a proposition that is participative and transforming.