Para além do descaso: o monitoramento e avalição do Projovem Urbano em Natal (2008-2012)

Abstract

The research resulting from this text aims to analyze the theoretical, methodological and ideological matrixes of the Projovem Urbano Monitoring and Evaluation System, in its effectiveness in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, between 2008 and 2012. From the point of view of the method, we are guided by the approaches: historical-critical with Lukács (2003) and Saviani (2011); public policy evaluation, Stephen Ball and Richard Bowe (1992), Costa, Castanhar (2003), Mainardes (2006) and Souza (2014). This reference is associated with interlocution with discourse analysis, originally carried out by the Frenchman Michel Pêcheux (1988) and, on Brazilian soil, by Orlandi (2012), who studies this theme. In the empirical field, we focus on Projovem Urbano as a public education policy for poor segments of the Brazilian population, in a situation of social vulnerability. To understand the dynamics of this system that has been part of the program since its beginnings, in 2005, we go into the theoretical and methodological basis of the process evaluation in public policies such as social research. The evaluation, understood as social research, is compatible with Discourse Analysis - theory and methodology - which favors the understanding of discourse as a process that articulates language and history, since it carries with it the historicity of events. In view of the reflections raised both by the theoretical and methodological support as well as by the primary and secondary sources of information as well as by experiences and experiences of personal and professional life on the part of the researcher, we proposed to take as a thesis, the perspective of the Monitoring and Evaluation System ( SMA) refer to the global logic of regulation of public education policies, maintained by the Brazilian State with the primary purpose of regulating, monitoring, supervising and certifying the actions of Projovem Urbano. In this sense, in spite of setting up a procedural assessment procedure, its matrix, however, does not appropriate the literature on learning assessment nor the literature on public policies as evaluative research or social research, which refers to the cycle of public policies : formulation, implementation and evaluation. In view of what the Monitoring and Evaluation System (SMA) proposes, and in view of the general objective of this research, we define the following question: the theoretical, methodological and ideological matrices, which support the System, are aligned with the perspective of learning evaluation, the evaluation of public policies or, in them, does the State regulate the dynamics of the program? In view of the aspects analyzed, we can conclude that, despite responding to the appeals of the potential demand of young people who returned to school, it led to the reconstruction of an educational and citizenship trajectory for ascension and / or social integration, perceived by his young people members. Because they did not have their rights fully respected, they continued to face obstacles to continue studying in environments of shared social interaction with people of similar or different conditions. Thus, they felt scorned by the lack of protection and equitable social opportunities in terms of access to education and the world of qualified work. In this sense, we consider that the historical weaknesses in relation to the State's presence in dealing with people's social and civil rights, especially on the outskirts of cities, generating insecurity and skepticism regarding the expectations of youth, inscribed in Projovem Urbano.