O Programa Ceará Educa Mais como política estratégica de materialização da meritocracia no sistema de gestão para resultados da educação cearense

Abstract

The thesis entitled "The Ceará Educa Mais Program as a Strategic Policy for the Materialization of Meritocracy in the Results Management System of Ceará's Education" addresses the theme of meritocracy in the field of educational policies and results management. The "Ceará Educa Mais Program" is one of the main educational policies of Ceará, created through Law No. 17,572/2021, which encompasses a set of actions aimed at organizing, developing, and executing management strategies in Ceará's public education system, with the objective of improving and strengthening the learning process. It is structured around eight strategic axes and thirty specific actions, in addition to articulating with other projects to operationalize the results management system.Our objective is to analyze how the Ceará Educa Mais Program is articulated with the notion of meritocracy and impacts the educational management system of Ceará's public high school network. It is argued that meritocracy is an ideology that reflects the exploitative relations of capitalist society and plays a role in concealing social inequalities. Therefore, the analysis presented here is based on Historical-Dialectical Materialism, as a theoretical-methodological basis to meet the proposed objectives.This is a documentary and bibliographical research, with procedures and techniques of content analysis based on Bardin (2011). The corpus of documentary research is composed of laws and decrees that regulate the Ceará Educa Mais Program and its amendments, as well as other laws that regulate results management and reward policies linked to the program, and 12 informative bulletins that express the materialization of the program-object actions within the educational system.The theoretical foundation is composed of authors such as: Barbosa (2006), Chauí (2014), Freitas (2011; 2014; 2016; 2018), Harvey (2008), Kreimer (2000), Löwy (2015), Newton Duarte (2010), Marckovits (2021), Marx (2012; 2013), Marx and Engels (2007; 2010), Sandel (2021), Saviani (2008), Vieira (2013), among others.The results of this research show that, since the 1990s, under the influence of neoliberal ideology, managerial reforms have been implemented, which resulted in the development of a Results Management (GPR) model in the educational system, whose meritocracy is one of its key elements. In this context, the thesis is affirmed: the Ceará Educa Mais Program is constituted as a strategic educational policy, which is based on a legal basis for supporting and legitimizing the meritocracy system. This merit system manifests itself through policies of recognition and reward of merit, but also as an underlying ideology, which fulfills the function of promoting the results management model in Ceará's education for more than 25 years.