Políticas públicas de livro didático: elementos para compreensão da agenda de políticas públicas em educação no Brasil

Abstract

The research seeks to determine the elements that condition the formulation of the public policy agenda, in the field of education, that deal with the textbook. It was concluded from the analysis of primary sources, especially official documentation and articles published in newspapers, that the textbook policies in Brazil had as a concern control over the content of the books and the creation of conditions that would guarantee the access of Students to the textbook. On the other hand, the policies of the didactic book in Brazil were constructed from the following factors: 1) that the books adopted in the schools should be chosen by the teachers; 2) that textbooks would be produced by the Brazilian publishing market; 3) that the State could exercise only the pedagogical evaluation of the textbook without, however, interfering in the textbook market nor in the choice of the book by that of the teacher.