Do plano à prática: a educação integral e sua implementação na rede pública da Paraíba

Abstract

In a context marked by profound educational inequalities and persistent challenges in the citizenship formation of young people, comprehensive education emerges as a possibility for improvement and transformation. Therefore, this study aims to investigate and analyze the implementation of the comprehensive education policy in the State of Paraíba, based on the 2017 Action Plan and State Law No. 11,100/2018, which instituted the program. To this end, we seek to understand its conception and regulation, in addition to investigating the model adopted and the observable impacts on educational indicators. Using a qualitative methodology, with an exploratory and descriptive approach, based on bibliographic and documentary review, we analyze the dimensions present in the vision of the Action Plan. The study reveals both advances, the growth in the rates of comprehensive schools, and weaknesses, in the difficulties in management and limited access to public data. In addition, there is the turnover of managers that expose the risks of discontinuity and invisibility of essential elements of the policy. The study also discusses comprehensive education as a possibility for improving the quality of education in the state, and reaffirms its importance as an educational policy and strategy for tackling inequalities in the state, inviting us to think about the role of the State in ensuring a fairer public school committed to offering excellent education to its students.