Educação integral e de qualidade: no renovar das experiências, a busca de novos caminhos

Abstract

This research has as its central theme the full time education and propose to examine the relationship between the extended day project of the School of Elementary Education Major Antonio de Alencar, called Integral Shift School, and the improving of the school education quallity since this school has achieved Social Effectiveness in the community in which it operates. To achieve the proposed objectives, we conducted a literature search on the historical context and conceptions of Integral Education in Brazil and through qualitative research with references like Godoy (1995), Brandão (2000) and Ludke & Andrew (2003), we managed to studied the context in which they occurred and made possible the active participation of the researcher in that environment. The school investigated participates in the "More Education Program" which constitutes a strategy of the Federal Government that provides for the provision of full time education in extended journey through the realization of social and educational activities in the opposite shift of the school day held on the school surroundings or outside . We believe that the discussion of the full time education in this study have actual relevance as it is inserted in the national context of public policies that evoke the search for quality of Brazilian education, while a study that combines full time education enlarged the journey to the impacts in the educational processes.