Os conselhos municipais de educação: o caso do município de São José dos Pinhais

Abstract

The present essay has examined the reality within the Municipal Education Board Aldermen, viewed as a Federal organism and as a part of the Municipal Education System in the light of specialized studies, and has tested the most important hypothesis created by the scientific community on the Municipal Education Board Aldermen of São José dos Pinhais (PR), making a dialogue with the existing reality in the cities of Ponta Grossa (PR), Juiz de Fora (MG), Recife (PE), Campinas (SP) and Serra (ES). We have applied the deductive method on the basis of the studies results on the Municipal Education Board Aldermen of those cities in order to compare and verify where these realities meet with others sceneries, as the São José dos Pinhais’s Municipal Board Aldermen. The parameters we have used are the works of specialized authors on which were built the Concepts of the Municipal Education management – CMEs –, education autonomy and democratization. Beyond a bibliographic raising research and in order to improve our understanding on these matters, we have search on the Staff of Superior Level’s Perfectioning Coordination (Capes) Thesis Database where we found and selected five studies concerning big and medium sized cities reality situation. Those studies have helped us to understand the existing functioning tendencies inside the Municipal Education Board Aldermen. The essay concerning the reality of the São José dos Pinhais’s Municipal Education Board Aldermen was done over a descriptive, exploratory and comparative view, founded on official documents and interviews answered by the most important actors of the mentioned educational scenery. The research has detected a series of tendencies around the CME that can be generalized insofar these tendencies were continually found in several analyzed cases: they have all consultative and bureaucratic traits and a lack of autonomy and capable counselors; they are totally dependent of the Municipal Executive will and have a lack of substructure. The research confirms the hegemonic tendency in all analyzed cases. In other words, CMEs legitimize the public policies without any popular participation and exist according the good will of the current govern and nothing more. That’s all what it has become.