Escola em tempo integral, mercado e “novos rumos” para a educação pública no Brasil: um estudo de caso do município de Mata de São João- BA.

Abstract

The study addresses Integral Education in Mata de São João-BA, analyzing the educational strategies adopted during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The research focuses on how the Department of Education incorporated practices from the educational market, especially through partnerships with organizations such as the Lemann Foundation and the adoption of digital platforms. It also examines how these strategies align with the municipality's Integral Education proposal and explores its philosophical, social and political dimensions. Thus, the research aimed to understand this articulation and its effects, and, to this end, it was proposed to identify and characterize the municipality's Integral Education proposal, mapping the educational packages acquired during the pandemic period (and some currently maintained), evaluating their possible potentialities and limitations. The methodological approach used was qualitative, through a case study, using data production devices, analysis of available documents and semi-structured interviews with teachers from the municipal network; to analyze the data produced, Discursive Textual Analysis (ATD) was used. The results show that the municipality has prioritized external models, focusing on increasing IDEB, using educational packages that saturate the curriculum and compromise teaching autonomy, which is monitored by digital platforms. Furthermore, the research seeks to contribute to the debate on the challenges of Integral Education in Brazil, emphasizing the need for public policies that guarantee more comprehensive training for working-class children.