Salvador, cidade educadora e os ciclos de parceria público-privado (2005-2012)

Abstract

This study problematizes the "cycles" of public-private partnerships effected by the Municipal secretariat of Education of Salvador, between the years 2005-2012, during the management of Mayor João Henrique, and its implications for the development of public policy Education of the city. The research reference questions were: How are the cycles of public-private partnerships built and operated in the education of Salvador's municipal education network? What are the implications of these cycles in educational public policies between the years 2005 and 2012? In close liaison with this questions, the general objective was thus outlined: to apprehend the flows that characterized the cycles of public-private partnerships in the municipal Education network of Salvador and its implications in the public policies of education between the years of 2005 to 2012. The research, of a qualitative nature, was documental and was made from institutional records, which allowed identifying, analyzing/interpreting and evidentiary the actions performed by the Secretariat. The categories "Public-private", "private devices of hegemony" and "bureaucrats" were defined for the development of the research, given the centrality that they assumed in the context of changes in the culture and management of the public sector, configured as managerialism, that is, the creation of mechanisms of state control, combined with the deregulation of its actions in the educational area. The research involved documents elaborated by the Municipal Secretariat of Education of Salvador, news from the official website, official journals and educational legislation of the municipality. It was revealed that the Municipal Secretariat of Education of Salvador held partnerships of various natures, ranging from partnerships without direct charge to the public safes, such as partnerships with companies in search of the seal of responsibility social and business, to partnerships involving public funds, such as those carried out with advisory services companies and pedagogical actions management. The partnership cycles characterized in the study were intermittent, but they left deep marks of discontinuity in the municipal Education network of Salvador, besides serving as a contribution to the dissemination of the culture of managerialism