Mercosul educacional: análise da gestão educacional na promoção da integração regional

Abstract

This thesis analyzes in the impact of Educational MERCOSUR in the development of educational management in the promotion of regional integration with educational policies, and it had CAPES funding. The research presents the actions developed by the Educational Sector from the minutes of Ministers of Education Meetings in the various pro tempore presidencies between the years 2005 and 2015. The investigation aims to answer what the effect of educational management in promoting regional integration in basic educationare. This study is divided into six chapters and their sections. The Introduction brings methodological demarcation, the literature review and the organization of the analyzed documents. The second chapter presents the issues of regional integration, the historical context of the formation of the Latin nations, as well as the economic and political context surrounding nations, as well MERCOSUR, the settings of its emergence as an economic bloc in Latin America, the Educational Sector, its structure and organization. The third chapter brings arguments about public policies and the logic of the neoliberal market as an influence on educational systems in Latin America in the 1990s and addresses the dialogue between authors of democratic education management. The fourth chapter analyzes the official documents of MERCOSUR’s Educational Sector’s Ministers of Education Meetings year by year and makes an analytical approach of the Educational Sector’s Triennial Plans. The fifth chapter was developed in three steps: the first elaborates on the minutes of the Ministers of Education Meetings between 2005 and 2010; the second deals with the analysis of the minutes from 2011 to 2015; and the third broadly portrays the development of actions by the Educational Sector during these last ten years to thus be able to point out the impact of educational management in promoting regional integration in basic education. The fifth chapter is developed by discussing the limitations and the notability of the theme with observations on other possible research in the Educational Sector’s educational management.