Escola integrada: uma proposta de educação para todos

Abstract

The Integrated School is a program developed by the City Hall of Belo Horizonte, through the City Department of Education, which allows the expansion of the school journey-work to nine hours a day. This program is premised on the Educating City and commitment of Belo Horizonte in effect as long as such, committing to develop a comprehensive educational project, that includes formal education, informal and non formal, strengthening democratic values and practices, and citizens, such as respect, tolerance, participation and interest in public affairs. This paper aims to analyze and evaluate the Integrated School Program, contextualizing it as a policy of expanding the school day which enables the construction of a quality education with equity, in that it reduces the differences in opportunities for students, through access to the numerous languages, skills, knowledge and abilities present in various sociocultural contexts. For this, the assumptions of the program related to the concepts of holistic education expanding the school day, educating city, civic and school, through the study of authors who deal with these issues. Also wanted to analyze the structure and operation of the Program, in a municipal school, which joined the program in 2006, initial year of deployment in the city, trying to understand the impact of the program in school organization, practices of teachers and in the student learning. This was possible by observing the daily life of the school and analysis of structured interviews. This study showed a high resistance and ignorance of the group of teachers in relation to the Program and a distance between the regular school and activities of the extended time. This paper proposes interventive actions aiming to reduce the problems and difficulties observed, contributing to the quality and effectiveness of the Integrated School Program to promote a school citizen and be able to meet the challenges of contemporaneity.