O par do município de natal: o regime de colaboração e a gestão educacional

Abstract

This work analyzes the Articulated Action Plan in Natal-Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. The plan is analyzed considering its educational management dimension, its national overall design and organization in the city of Natal from 2007 to 2011. This Plan is a federal program that aims to attain the goals established for primary education in the National Education Plan as well as promote collaboration between education systems considering contracts between federal entities. Therefore, in this research it is question if the formulation and implementation of this Articulated Action Plan in Natal was guided by intergovernmental relations and aimed federal coordination? Did the intergovernmental relations between the Union and the city of Natal influence or not the organization's management of the municipal system? The research was done considering the dialectical materialism historical perspective presented as an analysis and option of the study. The methodological procedures used were semi-structured interviews, documental and bibliographical research. Documental research enabled the analysis of varied documents that were elaborated by the Brazilian Ministry of Education, by Municipal Department of Education, Natal´s Articulated Action Plan as well as laws, resolutions and national decrees. Bibliographic review enabled literary review related to the topic under study. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with subjects that would allow subsidizing this analysis done according to the research objectives. Data analysis points out that the Brazilian Union proposal operates with a pattern of intergovernmental relations which aims to decentralize the implementation of public educational policies, leaving little room for sub-national government plan to implement their own educational policies. This proposal causes an overlapping regarding municipal planning and paradoxically reveals at the same time that the Union propels federal coordination in its decision-making power enabling negative reactions on behalf of municipalities.