Planejamento educacional em Minas Gerais: concepções políticas e ideologia

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to verify the ideological and political conceptions present in the educational planning of Minas Gerais State government in 1997. It has also the purpose to contribute to the discussion in public policy field by means of this analyzed approach. For that, this inquiry analyzes two documents produced by the Minas Gerais State Education Secretary: the School Development Plan Implementation Plan and the School Development Plan -- Manager Handbook. At the beginning it will be presented a study on the education in the globalization context in order to allow a reflection on the factors that contribute to and/or determine the education sector public policies. In this approach, it is established the policy or Minas Gerais State government under the light of Overall Quality enterprise model applied to education system. It was chartered the description of the main point of Minas Gerais State policy to the education sector, that is: administrative autonomy, school direction strengthening, teachers training and, finally, the integration to the counties. The documents were analyzed in order to identify the political and ideological education planning conceptions by means of the following parameters: 1) education political conceptions under the light of Overall Quality; the idea of democracy in education planning and 3) education planning and the enterprise approach. From this study, it was possible to conclude that the politicals and ideologicals conceptions within the Minas Gerais State education planning revealed the ideas that come from the enterprise pragmatism, including the Overall Quality discourse and the school autonomy. The political atmosphere created around the education planning shows a kind of authoritarianism that does not consider the peculiarities of each school.