\What are we doing?\ Reflections of legalistic rationality of the actors on the educational activity.

Author(s)

Júlio César Bezerra

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD)
• Defense date: 2013-04-02

Examining board members

Kimi Aparecida Tomizaki; Flavia Ines Schilling; Adriano Correia Silva

• Advisor: Kimi Aparecida Tomizaki

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the effects of central official acts on the practices and behaviors of individuals involved in the educational process in educational institutions of the State of São Paulo. She pretends to be incorporated into a prolonged discussion of the development process and their calculated regulatory requirements on the public stage. In this research we believe that official acts are conceived as discursive power strategies that focus on the ordering of affairs and the sayings of the actors. For this reason, the core of the discussion proposal is to understand the ways in which individuals deal with this arsenal of legal rules that are available and how they react to it, paying attention to the effects on daily life. It is the attempt to articulate a structural dimension with the shapes, attitudes, positions taken by the subjects. Interested, mainly, thinking strategies in this case, government strategy and actors and how the pipes are lead. From a rational approach to ordering and deliberate on the government and its work in standardizing the structure and functioning of schools, using documents that have as main objective the establishment of rules and the creation of procedures, the first step of the research was concentrated in document analysis, which were contemplated legal texts published in the Official Gazette of the State of São Paulo between 2007 and 2008, in the form of ordinances, resolutions, laws and decrees, searching and selecting those related devices or similar addressing the educational field. In the second stage we develop empirical research through direct observation of the practices of teachers and school managers, exploring the relationship between legal aspects and their (dis) connections with everyday institutions of public education, from two contexts school located in the Great São Paulo. The approach here mobilized confronts us the possibilities and human limitations in the context of official acts and speeches institutionalized. At the open investigation, we sought to establish what those devices and rationality that accompanies produce and produce induces in subjectivities. The job of approaching the legalistic dimension, throughout an activity of continuous and permanent character, revealed mechanisms forming a government strategy to governmentalisation par excellence, establishing the rigor of the normal procedures of the institution. From the observed situations in schools, the relationship with the installed arsenal regulatory showed that actors can articulate, amid the tangle of institutional mechanisms, actions, positions and regulatory decisions in the plot. In the game of legalistic disputes between rationality and sovereignty of yourself, they realign their strategies and mobilize aspects available to achieve profitable ways to manage school affairs. The school experience revealed tensions, joints and connections with legalities and illegalities dynamic in which regulations and procedures are used and handled according to the perspectives, intentions and decisions of the players, in a game of fighting and clashes between state strategies and daily practices strategic. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/12150-1 - What are we doing?: reflections of legalistic rationality of the actors on the educational activity
• Grantee: Julio Cesar Bezerra
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master