Ensino médio politécnico no Rio Grande do Sul (2011-2014): fatores que interferem na ressignificação da política, no contexto da prática, em escolas de Farroupilha/RS

Abstract

The theme of this work is the implementation of the educational policy in the Rio Grande between the years 2011 and 2014. From this theme I sought to identify the factors that lead, in the context of practice, the resistances and new meanings given to the educational policy of the Polytechnic High School. The empirical field chosen for the research was two high schools in the city of Farroupilha/RS, which had different social and economic realities. The methodology used in this investigation was the dialectic, as a way to understand reality as essentially contradictory and constantly changing. (Konder, 2008). During the development, I used the Document Analysis and Content Analysis, according to Bardin (1977), analyzing interviews, questionnaires and minutes of pedagogical meetings. As a methodological tool, I used Stephen Ball‟s Policy Cycle and Richard Bowe (cited Mainardes, 2006).The Polytechni, proposed as an educational policy in RS, predicts the formation of a subject who domains the technical and knowledge which compound and build all the technic, differently from a concept of education based on the preparation of students to meet the working market demand, as the neoliberal model request. The official documents of SEDUC/RS (Department of Education from Rio Grande do Sul State), I identified concepts linked to the Marxist polytechnic. In the context of practice, however, some elements have been resignificated. The resignificances happened for the failures in the training process, the collective resistance of the professionals involved and the difficulties regarding physical structure and personnel in schools. Both emancipatory evaluation was reinterpreted, which does not definitively broke with the exclusive process of school evaluation, and the Integrated Seminar, which became a subject of research methodology, not fulfilling its fundamental role of promoting interdisciplinarity. Advances are perceived by the contradictions generated by the policy guiding the debate on an alternative model to the capital.