Between the prescribed and the real: local educational policy in the post-1946 Constitution era - a historical analysis in Vitória da Conquista/BA

Abstract

There is a growing interest in approaches in the field of Brazilian Educational Policy history centered on local issues, in a reverse movement to the frequently emphasized analyses in a broad perspective, such as major educational reforms. This fact gives the work "Public Policies of Education in the Scope of Post-Constitution Federalism of 1946" a transgressive character, as it proposes a reverse movement by having as its study axis the public policies of education in the municipality of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, during the period between 1945 and 1963, and the changes that occurred in local education during this highlighted time. Recently, the book "Public Policies of Education in the Scope of Post-Constitution Federalism of 1946," authored by Elenice Silva Ferreira, was published in physical and e-book format by the Appris Publisher. The book is the fruit of a doctoral thesis defended at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, PUC/MG. It is part of the Education, Technologies, and Transdisciplinarity Collection, and it presents the public policies aimed at organizing education in the municipality of Vitória da Conquista, including some specific dimensions such as the creation of schools' projects and the organization of teaching, without hiding the strategies articulated by intellectuals and local leaders in favor of an educational structure that included the municipality of Vitória da Conquista among the developed municipalities. In this aspect, in the writing of this work, the author did not fail to recognize the municipality as a political-administrative entity with its own life, but articulated with political and educational actions at the state/national level, inherent to the federative State model (FERREIRA, 2019).