THE ROLE OF UNDIME IN THE PROCESS OF AFFIRMATION OF LOGIC FROM GOVERNANCE IN NETWORKING IN THE FIELD OF BRAZILIAN EDUCATION

Abstract

This article is the result of research in progress, the objective is to analyse the role(s) of UNDIME in the process of defining and implementing educational polices in Brazil, in the context of capital crises and the consequent refunctionalization movement of the State, from 1980 to 2020, with emphasis on the curriculum policy formulated by the BNCC. It was specifically up to this text to discuss the process of establishing governance in the field of Brazilian education, in the face of advance of neoliberalism in the last decades of the 20th century. In this perspective, the role of the National Union of Municipal Education Directors – UNIME was emphasised, in the fundamental dynamics of consensus production, along with the educational systems and networks of the country, with a view to their adherence, to the new institutional arrangements promoted by the governance paradigm. For this

purpose, a reflection was conducted based on Antonio Gramsci’s concept of the Integral State, in addition to Engelmarxian considerations on the capitalist metabolism. Furthermore, the reflective path had as a methodological strategy, the qualitative analysis of documents, with emphasis on the specific study on the Guidance Book for the Municipal Director of Education, prepared in 2008 by the investigated institution. Therefore, the importance of UNDIME is demonstrated in the advancement of business principals and concepts in institutionalized education in the country.