Política e gestão em educação no município de Uberaba-MG nos anos de 1980-1990

Abstract

This study is on the area of public policies and management in education and it analyses educacial policies implemented in the 80’s and 90’s in Uberaba-MG, so that we could understand the meanings and dimensions of a democractic proposal for school management in this context. The study has as aims: to analyse the implemented processes in the local school system of Uberaba , in the name of a democratization of the public school management; to identify the notions( concepts) of democracy and participation present in oficial documents that deal with these processes; to establish the educacional experience of Uberaba in a larger context, especially to the extent of the debate about the democratization of education in Brazil between 1980 and 1990. We adopted as methodology the qualitative approach, examining documents from different sources such as official letters.regulations, governmental decrees, instructions, federal decrees and manuais, and especially the Town Educational plan, the School council, as well as the legislative acts related to election of principais and headmasters.The study is structured in two chapters. In chapter one, it is analysed the movement of democratization in education and in schools in Brazil in the 80’s, and its consequences to educacional policies in the state of Minas Gerais and in Uberaba.In chapter two, we discuss educacional policies implemented in the 90’s about the principies of democracy and participation in federal, state and mainly, in the local sphere.ln the conclusion, we point out how the democractic principies and ways of participation were given new meanings in theeducacional policies developed in Minas Gerais and in Uberaba. In this process of giving new meanings, on one hand,the democratization of the school was put within the limits of logic , effectiveness and efficiency, in a strongly controlled concept of education, and on the other, the actual participation was not beyond the formal, imposed one. And finally.it was also clear the way the neoliberal ideology influenced the educacional policies in Uberaba in the 90’s.