Fórum Municipal de Educação de Dourados/MS: implantação e implementação

Abstract

This Master’s Dissertation in Education was developed within the scope of the Graduate Program in Education (PPGEdu) of the Faculty of Education (FAED) of the Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), in the area of concentration History, Policy and Management of Education, in the Education Policy and Management Research Line. It’s linked to the Research Project: Monitoring Municipal Education Plans (PMEs) in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS). The research object is the Municipal Education Forum (FME) in Dourados/MS. Its general objective is to analyze the implementation and implementation of the Municipal Education Forum in Dourados/MS as a possible instrument for the democratic management of municipal education. The guiding problem of the research is explained in the following question: how did the process of implantation and implementation of the Municipal Education Forum of the Municipality of Dourados in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul occur, as a possible space for effective democratic management of municipal education? The time rame of the research includes the years 2017, depending on the date of creation of the FME/Dourados, to 2021. The methodological contribution guided the bibliographic and documentary research, in a qualitative approach. In the bibliographic research, the data were searched in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), in the Theses and Dissertations Catalog of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), in the Electronic Scientific Library Online (Scielo Brasil) and in the Portal of CAPES Periodicals. With regard to documentary research, the following documents were defined as the primary sources of this Dissertation: Federal Law n. 13.005 - National Education Plan - PNE (2014-2024); Municipal Law n. 3.904 - Municipal Education Plan - PME/Dourados MS (2015-2025); Internal Regulations of the FME/ Dourados; decrees and official letters of the FME/Dourados that deal with its implantation and implementation; minutes of meetings held in the period (2017-2021) of the FME/Dourados. The results point out that the FME implementation process took place in 2017 in compliance with the PME, slowly complying with all legal regulations by elaborating and approving its Internal Regulations and logo. The study also reveals that, even with its limitations, the newly created FME managed to plan, organize and carry out the I National Popular Conference on Education (CONAPE) at municipal and inter-municipal stages. But for the expansion of its work, the FME needs autonomy and financial support, without its own resources, they cannot afford the conferences, keep their study groups active and publish materials produced in these moments of discussion and reflection. It was also possible to verify in its normative documents that the FME is being implemented, through its daily activities, which are the ordinary and extraordinary meetings, in addition to the Permanent Working Groups (GTPs) that held training moments with various themes throughout the five-year period. for all of society. Although the FME is a possible powerful instrument of democratic management within the scope of municipal education, it has demonstrated its weaknesses and difficulties throughout the analyzed period, especially the correlation of forces between civil society and political society.