Conselhos municipais de educação: participação e cultura política para a construção democrática

Abstract

This thesis deals with the dynamics of participation in the Municipal Councils of Education (CMEs, in Portuguese): one in the city of Castanhal, in the State of Pará, and another in the city of Novo Hamburgo, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The research in which this report was based was focused on a participant perspective and its analysis was made through a comparison methodology. In the field work, semi-structured interviews were carried out with the support of a voice recorder, from which the field diary was produced, as well as a set of primary sources, highlighting the CME documents and the content of interviews of their Counselors. The total of the thirty statements revealed the context of participation, which consisted of the identification of the individual experiences of socialization, of the political experiences and of the work of these Councilors in the CMEs, revealing the political participation as a phenomenon presided by cultural dynamics resulting from previous experiences that have shaped the political choices of the present. Taken together, this paper revealed that the culture or performance of Counselors in their respective CMEs depend on their individual experiences of participation, and it tends to become more participatory as they get more recurrent, which means that the more political experiences, Counselors and their own CMEs have more possibilities of consolidation of participation.