O ideário da CEPAL e as propostas de políticas educacionais para o Rio Grande do Sul : 1998-2014

Abstract

This thesis aims at identifying the influences of the proposals made by CEPAL - Economic Commission for the Development of Latin America and the Caribbean - in the educational politics of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, during the governments of the period between 1998 and 2014. It focuses on the strategies that guided changes in educational, scientific, technological and training segments, considering the construction of citizenship entailed to democracy and technical progress. It is a qualitative study, which focuses on the proposals for politics of education by CEPAL from two documents: Educação e Conhecimento: Eixo da Transformação Produtiva com Equidade (Education and Knowledge: Axle of the Productive Transformation with Equity - 1992) and Invertir mejor parainvertir más: Financiamento y gestión de la educación em América Latina y el Caribe (To invest better in order to invest more: Financing and management of education in Latin America and Caribbean - 2005). It also considers the proposals of educational politics that appear in documents of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. This study it is rooted in the theoretical assumptions of Critical History and seeks to articulate the texts and the contexts in a dialectic perspective, by using the Documentary Analysis method created by Andre Cellard. This method is composed of two stages: Preliminary Analysis and Final Analysis. Through this method, the contents of CEPAL documents were analyzed, and the strategies for educational politics, as well as the "key concepts", were identified. Concerning Rio Grande do Sul’s documents, a preliminary analysis of the materials from each government was carried, as well as a final analysis of the texts written by such governments, considering its relations with CEPAL documents. Therefore, this study sought to identify the influences of CEPAL proposals in the educational politics of the governments of this state. The results demonstrate that the proposals from CEPAL documents present a systematic effort concerning the inter-relations between educational systems, qualification, research and technological development, which is inserted in the main scope of its proposal, focusing on economic transformation, social equity and political democratization. It was possible to verify CEPAL’s concern with the financing of education and the search of different sources of financial resources, as well as the challenges to improve its management. Thus, there is verified evidence of influence of CEPAL’s strategical ideas on the state politics, considering the different contexts of each government and its political position within 9 the neoliberal, political and economic movement, as well as the influences of international organisms.