Conceptions of integral education: the More Education Program – 2015 in focus

Abstract

The comprehensive education proposals are not new in Brazilian educational discussion, but with the approval of the National and Education Plan (PNE) 2014-2024, set up new perspectives for public policies in this area, since it set the goal of achieving minimum of 50% of schools working full time. Faced with the challenge posed by this goal this research focuses on the program "More Education" implemented in the municipality of Dourados induction under the federal government. To achieve this goal initially conducted literature and documentary seeking to understand the foundations that support the program and the concept of integral education that underlies in the sequence we developed the second phase of the research consisted of questionnaires given to professionals from three schools aiming to capture the views that support the experience in analysis. After analyzing the data collected we observe that the program has a limited conception of integral education, which is based on the expansion of the journey, to offer activities for a portion of students chosen by social vulnerability criteria, or poor school performance, getting away from the idea education for an integral formation with quality for all.