Os caminhos para a democratização da educação no Brasil: qual o papel dos educadores neste processo?

Abstract

The article analyzes the relationship between social movements of educators in the 1970s and 1980s and the process of democratization of education, which culminated in the promulgation of the Constitution of 1988, sanctioned by LDB No 9394/96. Through a qualitative approach, aimed to understand because the teachers said to played in the Brazilian ideology that permeated the period of discussion and consolidation of the Constitution through their claims. The textual analysis is built from the categories democracy, public policy, education and social movements and theoretical contributions to the thinking of authors such as Marx, Gramsci, Ellen Wood, Maria da Glória Gohn, and others whose arguments are based from a dialectical view, based on critical theory. The work revealed that the democratization of education is a major demands of teachers in the 1970s and 1980s, and actions in their movements, have helped, but did not define the integration of the concepts of democracy are put in the Federal Constitution, for example, the democratic management of public education. Key