Materialização do Ensino Médio Politécnico em uma Escola Pública do Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

The study developed analyzed the materialization process of the Polytechnic in a public High school in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In its chapters, it was considered the particularities of the national and state scenarios as well as the political-ideological conceptions in which the politic is based, its basis and guiding principles. The research sought to answer the problem defined as: "How to materialize the policy of the Polytechnic in the High School in a central school in the city of Porto Alegre from the teachers´ point of view?" It was selected three investigative areas: 1. The way the policy was received in the researched school; 2. How was interpreted the policy text and how understood its basics concepts; 3. In which way occured the materialization process. After the content analysis of these axes emerged, in order, three categories of analysis: Between resistance and reframing the curriculum; The text of the policy: recontextualizations; Curricular restructuring: analysis of practice.The research followed a qualitative approach and used the case study methodology which was developed in two stages: the first stage, a focus group with the management team and application of a questionnaire to the teachers; at second, through three focus groups according to the areas of knowledgement : Languages, Mathematics and Natural and Human Sciences.The theoretical fundamentation occurred mainly from the reference fields of study in public policy, history and sociology of education. The analyzes and the data interpretations brought some results that deserve highlight: the resistance to the proposal due to the lack of knowledge about its grounds and especially by the imposing way it was presented to the schools; the process of the policy recontextualisation ensured a collective and conscious choice of work (although it was not unanimous) which linked the High School Polytechnic to the school pedagogical political Project. And finally, perhaps the main reason for the strengthening of the Polytechnic in this school was the collective work and, with it the sure that the High School needed changes, whatever they were, and it was up to the teachers and school management do their best to that to happen In conclusion, the Polytechnic High School represented to the RS public schools, a real opportunity to move forward changes. And this school did. However, there are doubts about what still remained: the name and curriculum in fact remained, but not its soul. Why? Perhaps because other winds brought new, or not so new, conceptions, or perhaps because its soul was never envisioned.