O sistema nacional de educação no Brasil: o debate atual, analisando numa perspectiva histórica e estrutural

Abstract

In view of the educational movements that, in recent years, have advocated in favor of a Complementary Law that instituted a National Education System in Brazil, this thesis proves that most of the expectations of the protest movements had a rhetorical content and ignored the real conformation of the structure educational system in the country, which,through the system of collaboration, works according to the premises of an authentic NationalSystem. It has been demonstrated that there is a legal and normative body practically complete, distributing competences in a very precise way between the federated entities and assuring national standards of organization, operation, financing, evaluation, quality, etc; there are institutional mechanisms acting in the articulation and development of Brazilian education; there are large financial resources being managed under common rules and for national purposes. In the confirmation of this thesis, the research undertook an exhaustive documentary analysis (legislation and official documents of public agencies and educational associations of various shades) and bibliographical, examining the historical itinerary of the research object, thus adding to the understanding of the structural phenomenon, the dynamic dimension of time. In accompanying the final outcome of theproposals, discussed mainly in the National Conferences of Education, which originated complementary legislation projects to institute the National System of Education, it arrives at the conclusion that, in reality, the proposed propositions claim something that, under another nomenclature, in essence, is already done and in operation.