O espetáculo da educação
Os centros educacionais unificados do município de São Paulo como espaços públicos de lazer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5801232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Reinaldo Tadeu Pacheco (0000-0003-2578-801X, corresponding author), Reinaldo Tadeu Boscolo Pacheco |
| Year | 2009 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11606/t.48.2009.tde-09092009-163829 |
| OpenAlex | W1544313430 |
| Language | PT |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
São Paulo presents itself as a global, peripheral capitalistic city, where contradictions in the distribution of wealth, access to social rights and appropriation of the urban space are evident.By analyzing the role of the State in contemporary society, we have sought to assess the scope and meaning of the educational policies that were implemented by building the so-called Unified Educational Centers (Centros Educacionais Unificados, CEUs), large complexes that provide formal educational services for children and youth -day-care centers, elementary and secondary schools, continuing education opportunities for youth and adults -, as well as access to cultural, sports and leisure activities.We investigated the working dynamics of these units in an attempt to understand how the offering of additional educational opportunities, over and above formal schooling, changes the ways public equipment and resources are managed and organized.We carried out observation assignments, especially on weekends, in two units, in different neighborhoods, and made sporadic visits to three other units.By analyzing documents and interviewing current and former principals and school officials, coordinators of the educational, cultural, sports and leisure departments, teachers, service providers and community leaderships (25 individuals overall), we were able to raise a series of recurring issues that imply a need to revise how this type of educational complex is managed.A study of the Unified Educational Centers positively establishes a "spectacularization of educational policy" that uses urban reform and the offering of leisure to the population as attempts to rationalize this kind of intervention.Pork barrel policies, a historical trait of Brazilian political culture, flourished during the administration of mayor Marta Suplicy (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004), grew vigorously in the subsequent administration, Serra-Kassab (2005-2008), and benefited from the creation of approximately 13 commissioned administrative jobs in each CEU.There is no democratic debate and no control by local organizations of the services provided by the CEUs to the population.The State, understood as the political structure that composes capital's social metabolic order, is powerless to prevent inequality and forms of social segregation.Therefore, the State's educational policies have been incapable of offering opportunities to build up equality.This new educational architecture is a grand spectacle offered to the population that does not significantly alter the quality of municipal schools.It has been observed that this type of intervention, by incorporating leisure into education, contributes to a misrepresentation of cultural, sports and especially leisure activities as educational possibilities, inasmuch as these large complexes imply enormous social costs vis-à-vis what they offer in terms of non-formal education.In this sense, educational policy, by treating education itself as a spectacle, makes use of leisure as its noblest and dearest prop
Appropriation · Pedagogy · Political science · Popular education · Population · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Physical Education and Sports Studies · Social and Political Issues · Youth, Politics, and Society
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |