Relações de poder institucionais e prática de assessoria no movimento de educação de base

Abstract

The main focus of this dissertation is the study about how relations of power in the Base Education Movement - MEB are generated, concerning its internal spaces and the assistance to popular organizations. It searches the comprehension about how the Catholic Church of Brazil's ideological and historical signs are present and influence or/and condition the MEB's relations of power. It still analyses some mechanisms of exercises of power in that institution, as well as its social, political and pedagogic conceptions on which its practice of pedagogic assistance is based. The research gave priority to the period of time between 1993 and 1998, and to the diocese of Picos, in Piauí, in the Brazilian Northeast; however. it is not limited to them. Based on Gramsci, Dialectical Conception of History and on analytical categories: Contradiction and Hegemony, it discusses the limits and possibilities to build democratic social practices. It come to the conclusion that in the MEB's institutional spaces and in its practices of assistance, there is, at the same time, the reproduction of authoritarian social relations and the implementation of democratic social one. The work reveals the MEB's need to strengthen its board of assistance's formation in a critical prospective and with scientific background, however, not ignoring the direct relation with popular organizations, in order to integrate their popular knowledge and power in the construction of a fair and democratic society.