As implicações do processo de nucleação das escolas rurais de Montes Claros/MG (1997-2013): contradições, desafios e perspectivas

Abstract

This research aims to study the politics of educational reform in rural education from the 1990s, with emphasis on the Rural Schools of Nucleation Process in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, between 1997, when there it starts, until 2013, when it was deployed the last stage of it. It aims to evaluate the role of municipal governance in this process, considered the history of educational policies in Brazil. For that, it tries to identify the contradictions, challenges and prospects of nucleation, based on the understanding of the economic, political and social context in which it was configured. Therefore seeks to apprehend the content regarding the ontological process of human reality and the ways in which this process has developed historically, to take it in the dialectical relationship between singular-universal-particular understood by George Luckács. It is based, therefore, on the Marxian epistemology, through which mediates the specific situation of the nucleation process in Montes Claros / MG and the general, considered the nationwide in the context of educational reform for schools undertaken in the field since year 1990. The survey of documentary character develops a literature review on public policies for rural education, collated with the legislation on education and the documentary corpus: letters, reports, newspaper articles, educational projects, reports of two managers and other official documents of the City Department of Education. As a result, we conclude that the municipal public administration forwarded the process of nucleation in a vertical and undemocratic way, not respecting the wishes of most communities, observing the dependence of the municipality with respect to determinations and the financial support of public authorities, who idealized Nucleation policy. We conclude that, in the perspective of better results, there is a need for the public management to consider the legitimacy of the point of views of the rural communities in search of other solution strategies that address quality education for empowerment of the rural population. The relevance of this work lies in the possibility it provides to evaluate, in the uniqueness of a municipality, how the local public management enables a public policy to develops, in general, within in Brazil.