A Reforma do Ensino Médio sob a perspectiva da avaliação das políticas públicas

Abstract

The research entitled "An evaluation of policy and implementation process of the Reform of Secondary Education in Ceará was developed in the PhD program in Public Policy UFMA from 2006 to 2010. This had its seed sown in the Masters in Evaluation of Public Policy (MAPP), Federal University of Ceará (UFC). In this sense, I continued to the concerns that have arisen and developed through research on education reform in Ceará with focus on primary education. This article turns to the theoretical-methodological reform of secondary education from the perspective of public policy evaluation. That said, the purpose of this study was configured to perform an evaluation policy and the process of implementing a policy called "New School: Education for Life is Now" on how to materialize in the state of Ceará (1996-2006). The study let himself be led by the understanding that the nowadays effectiveness of social policies require that they be evaluated (Cohen and Franco, 1993). In this perspective, the course covered the investigative and analytical point of view of evaluation of public policies as "[...] field research study on social development [...]" (SILVA, 2001, p. 44). Has the dual nature of this research focused allusive dimensions: on one hand, the study of the philosophical fundaments, political, pedagogical, ideological, economic and social reform, on the other, an approach to the implementation phase with focus on institutional factors that contributed to or not for their effectiveness and participation of individuals in this process, taking as a benchmark the "Plan for Expansion of High School in “Ceará” (SPCC)" implemented by “Secretária de Educação do Ceará” (SEDUC). [...]