O processo político de construção dos Planos Municipais de Educação no Território de Identidade do Sudoeste Baiano

Abstract

This Thesis presents the study on the political process of construction of the Municipal Education Plans in the Identity Territory of Southwest Bahia. The investigation took as an empirical field of analysis the Municipal Education Plan - PME (2015-2025) of Vitória da Conquista. The proposed undertaking was to situate the forces that influenced this process, as well as the articulations and possible effects on the educational and social reality of the Municipality. In order to facilitate the interpretation of this reality, the Foucaultian idea of Governmentality and Ball's notion of Political Networks were used as a theoretical-methodological possibility. In the exercise of the research, the text of the PME Conquista's Policy was constituted as an object of analysis and understanding, together with the voices of social actors who, in some way, were present in the process of its construction. The problematized argument is that the PME conforms to a governmentality mechanism based on the principles of neoliberal conservative rationality. Thus, in the course of analyzing the historical itinerary of knowledge production, it was conceivable to register that the writing of the Plan was guided by the financing policy and conservative vigilance, factors that hindered the popular participation and social movements; they brought into play the business community, the market, public-private network partnerships, educational quality, statistics; and produced erasures. That movement reveals the Vitória da Conquista Education Plan as a neoliberalized curricular policy; as an efficient tool for conducting conduct and subjectivities, governing, regulating, that enables exclusions, violence, prejudices, the feeling of not belonging, difference erasure, and the curtailment of the social movements demands – LGBTQIA+, indigenous people, black movements, youth, quilombola, religions of African origin – present in the Identity Territory in which the Municipality is located.