Democracia na Perspectiva dos Profissionais da Educação em São Gonçalo/RJ em Face às Políticas Públicas Educacionais

Abstract

The present study investigated, from the perspective of public education professionals from São Gonçalo city, as were engendered relations between local government and these professionals during the period the years between 1990 and 2010, regarding to understand the perspectives of the research subjects about democracy. This research was motivated by justification generated from the denial of the first hypothesis this work that originally was founded on the belief that there would be participation of the State Union of Professional Education of Rio de Janeiro / Sao Goncalo core (Sepe-SG) in Education Conferences (City, State and National), which occurred in the years 2009 and 2010. The assumption of education professionals participation would did not materialize and the reason given by the leaders of Sepe-SG - the lack of credibility in representative democracy - generated the new object of study of this research. This research is the product of the dialogue realized between the results obtained in our data collection and literature elected to support theoretical - methodological, whose works highlight the de Almeida (2000), Alvarenga (2003), Bobbio (1988 and 1991), Coutinho (1980), Gramsci (1984), Marx (1987a, 1978b, 1980), Saviani (2000), Weffort (1992) and Wood (1996 and 2010). From the methodological point of view, interviews were conducted with 56 municipal public education professionals from São Gonçalo. As leaders of the 11 SEPE-SG and 45 teachers and the College Civic President Castello Branco, where the quantitative and qualitative approach was prioritized at the time of data analysis. We hope this research have been able to understand the vision of these professionals as the asymmetrical relationship that is established between the government and the category, impacting on the participation of the category in the construction of educational policies of the city, and has been able to contribute with highlights held around the options of "active resistance", suggested by authors who conversed with this work against of institutions political relations between government and organized social movement.