By Pilar O'Cadiz, Pia Wong, Carlos Torres
This publication examines seriously the guidelines and function of Paulo Freire as secretary of schooling in Brazil within the early Nineteen Nineties, through the socialist democratic management of the employees’ celebration in São Paulo. With an emphasis on thought, the authors speak about the relationships among the nation and social routine in addition to the relationships among academics and curriculum reform. In so doing, they completely research the intersection of politics and schooling in academic reform in a single of the most important city facilities of Latin America.A critical concentration of the booklet is the undertaking of interdisciplinarity in lecturers trainingan crucial precept of the Freirean inspiration. through targeting school rooms, faculties, and academics and by way of use of a close empirical research, this publication constitutes an evaluation of an unique, far-reaching, and radical means of academic reform. the rules and methodologies of the São Paulo event will be carried out in numerous overseas contexts. The authors convey how scholars and academics have been engaged within the means of curriculum and governance reform and how much political expertise emerged in colleges and groups experiencing radical academic reform.
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220. 54. Interview, Marco Antonio GouvSa, February 1994. Ill Redefining Relationships: The State, Education, and Social Change Education as Social MoYement: The Sao Paulo Experience The debate surrounding the new educational policies launched by the FT administration in the municipality of Sao Paulo involves a number of crucial issues: What kind of state is being constructed? What kind of democracy is being asked for in a democratic-socialist project? What kind of education will eventually emerge from popular public education?
To consult, in this case, is the same as contributing a type of knowledge whose history begins and ends in the moment of its donation (or commercialization). Recall that the relationship between the technocrat and his client, a service to be rendered and a work contract, is an exercise in systematized knowledge in order to fulfill specific needs. 53 In the words of a former NAE Inter Team member who returned to his teaching position after the PT administration, "The neoliberal project is counter to the vision of the Inter Project.
The Popular Public School was defined by the PT Secretariat as follows: [It] not only is one to which all have access, but in whose construction every one participates, [it is a school] which truly attends to the popular interests which are of the majority; it is, therefore, a school of a new quality, based on commitment and solidarity, in the formation of class consciousness. 42 To begin the hard work of achieving this newly fashioned vision of the public school, at the outset, Freire's administration defined four areas of action.