Territory and Public Policies: An Analysis of the Implications of the Belford Roxo Municipal Education Plan
Territory. Public Educational Policies. Municipal Plan of Education.
The reflection on the process of territorialization of educational public policies has been emphasizing in the Brazilian academic scenario, due to the implementation of actions carried out by different political-institutional spheres that directly influence the socio-spatial organization of education. In this perspective, based on the guidelines set forth in the Federal Constitution of 1988, the Law on Guidelines and Bases of Education and the National Education Plan (PNE - 2014-2024), the local sphere assumes greater autonomy and responsibility in educational planning, from of the construction and execution of the Municipal Education Plan (PME). The PME is established as a relevant document for the rationale, regulation and organization of education at the municipal level, and this instrument is an indispensable component for the implementation of Law 13,005 / 2014, which sanctioned the PNE. In this context, the concept of territory assumes a preponderant role in the composition of national and local education policies, since it is from the perspective of cooperation and territorial collaboration that the federated entities materialize their education systems. In this way, the debate about the processes of cooperation and territorial collaboration in the educational sphere runs through the geographic reflection about the power relations that influence and stress the territory and consequently the production of public policies focused on education. Based on this preamble, the present work is a result of a master's degree research in the Graduate Program in Geography of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGGEO-UFRRJ). It is proposed from this writing to reflect on the sense engendered the geographical category territory in the Municipal Education Plan of Belford Roxo. The selection by the forementioned municipality that belongs to the Baixada Fluminense Region, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, was anchored in the social indicators published in the last census of 2010 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), as well as in the educational demographic indices made available by the National Institute of Educational Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP). To this end, the research methodology is based on a documental analysis of Belford Roxo. The research is based on a qualitative interpretation, supported by the data collection about the organization of the education of Belford Roxo and as well as of the bibliographical deepening on the debate about the educational public politics in the geographical science. From this, it is sought from this writing to collaborate for the reflection about the process of territorialization of public policies.