National Education System and Plan: scenarios and prospects - Interview: Dr. Luiz Fernandes Dourado

Abstract

Professor doctor Luiz Fernandes Dourado gave an interview to REPOD on 30 November 2023. In this interview, he presents elements of his academic and professional career in the field of education and comments on the scenarios and perspectives surrounding the National Education System and the National Education Plan. He presents a summary of the trajectory of the debate on the National Education System and Plan in Brazil; comments on the idea of the National Education System and Plan in relation to Latin American countries; and reiterates his thesis of the National Plan as the epicentre of state policies, seeking the perspective of an education that is public, popular, free, with public management, inclusive, democratic and of social quality. Likewise, it reinforces the role of conferences as moments for debate and political-pedagogical training, presenting themselves as spaces and mechanisms for democratic and participatory management and as possibilities for progress towards democratisation, effective citizen participation, a broad concept of training and guaranteeing effective inclusion in the system. It argues that the roles of the Plan, the Forum and the Conferences in institutionalising the National Education System are fundamental to guaranteeing the universalisation of education.