A política de fomento à educação científica do estado do Ceará: análise do Ceará Científico a partir da sua execução pelos técnicos da SEDUC, CREDEs e SEFOR

Abstract

This dissertation is developed in the Professional Graduate Program in Management and Evaluation of Education (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policies and Evaluation of Education at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The management case to be studied analyzes the Ceará Científico (Scientific Ceará) - The policy of promoting scientific education in the state of Ceará - from its execution by the Technicians of Ceará State Education Secretariat (SEDUC), Regional Education Development Coordinators (CREDEs) and Superintendency of the State Schools of Fortaleza (SEFOR). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the implementation of the Ceará Científico (CC) policy by the CREDEs and SEFOR. We assume as a hypothesis, that SEDUC decentralizes its actions, programs and projects in its administrative headquarters distributed by (regional) macro regions, called CREDE and SEFOR, in which each regional has partial autonomy in adapting the project proposed by SEDUC technical team (headquarters), being able to execute the CC differently. As a methodology, we use documentary research, gathering the documents that support the CC policy in the state network in the period from 2007 to 2018; we applied questionnaires to teachers who were in a technical role conducting the CC policy at SEDUC (headquarters), CREDE and SEFOR (headquarters); and we carried out the interpretative analysis of the applied questionnaires, comparing what is proposed by the basic documents of the CC policy, with what is actually performed in the regional network of Ceará. We found out the reasons for the different executions of Ceará Científico in the state network. After highlighting and listing the differences in the implementation of the CC in the regionals, we prepared the Educational Action Plan (PAE) with suggestions for actions for the consolidation of the CC policy in the state network.