Autonomia pedagógica da escola: base legal e conceitual e os desafios de uma experiência na rede municipal de São Paulo

Abstract

This dissertation initiates from the challenge of effective school pedagogic autonomy, a right enshrined in the Brazilian educational legal framework, still seldom observed in the reality of state schools. The overall objective of this work is to comprehend the pedagogic autonomy from its legal, political and pedagogical aspects, contributing towards the formation of a feasible and critical concept of autonomy. The proposed subject is justified on the need to delineate a concept that, through time, acquired an apparent discursive consensus in education, which hinders its identification to concrete political and pedagogical choices. This work pursues to draw a vision of autonomy historically and politically placed and supported on the critical thinking of the curriculum. The argumentative frame is founded on the concept of autonomy found in the brazilian Federal Constitution and in the National Education Directives and Foundation Act. Subsequently, we lean over the various concepts of autonomy identified in the history of the political and pedagogical thinking. In continuity, an analysis of the term autonomy in the works of Paulo Freire develops, resulting in a proposed systematisation of his conception of pedagogic autonomy in ten statements. Finally, the research attempted to ascertain the repercussions of this conception in the reality of the state schools in the municipality of São Paulo, where autonomy features as a major work directive. The case analysis which illustrates the research resulted from the study of the political pedagogical project of the school and a unscripted interview with the school principal