Some reflections on the public and private sectors in the management of Basic Education

Abstract

The reflections presented in this text are the result of doctoral dissertation research, under development within the Graduate Program in Education at UFPA, which aimed to analyze the management of public schools in Maranhão that entered into public-private partnerships with the Ayrton Senna Institute and the implications of this partnership for teaching. We use a qualitative and quantitative methodology, based on case studies and documentary research. To this end, we discuss the concept of the modern state, the reconfigurations of capital, the redefinition of the state's role in the 1990s, and the policy established for basic education. We highlight that the public/private relationship in this context undergoes new configurations and implications for school management and the definition of teachers' work in the school environment. We present some data on public school management and the implementation and expansion of the partnership between the IAS and the Maranhão State Education Department (SEDUC). From the set of analyses carried out, we highlighted some results regarding the interfaces between the public and private sectors in basic education in the State of Maranhão, according to which the partnership with the Ayrton Senna Institute reproduces an economicist perspective of education management, with the precariousness of teachers' work, which is inserted into a perverse logic of productivity and control.