Políticas públicas em educa����o ambiental no contexto da Confer��ncia Nacional de Educa����o - CONAE 2010

n this paper I pose some questions that I systematized after taking part in a colloquium proposed by the National Conference on Education (CONAE 2010) to discuss the theme ���Environmental Education and Curriculum Contextualization���. Regarding public environmental education policies, I try to indicate some perspectives that are both coherent with what Brazilian educators and environmentalists have been proposing and considered necessary for the consolidation of an Articulated National Education System. I present a synthesis of the environmental education proposals systematized in the CONAE Reference Document, which was designed as a guide to state and local conferences. I make an effort to carry out a preliminary analysis of both the process and the content of the public environmental education proposals systematized in the Essential Documents (Volumes I and II), Thematic Plenary Meeting Documents, and Final Document. Furthermore, I try to present a short synthesis of the prevailing tendencies of educational policies in Brazil in the last decades, pointing out the meaning and need of social activism for the construction of public policies for education, in general, and for environmental education, specifically.

Políticas públicas municipais de apoio a atividades econ��micas em assentamentos rurais: uma an��lise em quatro munic��pios paulistas

This paper reports a master research that aimed to analyze the patterns of institutional relationships between local officials and communities of agrarian reform settlements in four counties of the State of S��o Paulo ��� Apia��, Iaras, Promiss��o and Mirante do Paranapanema ��� particularly with regard to the types of support offered by the first to the economic activities in the settlements. In terms of methodology, we conducted a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, outlined in the format of multiple case study. Having like data sources the local officials responsible for institutional relations with the agrarian reform settlements, technicians agents of agencys linkeds to the land question, as INCRA and ITESP, and settled in leadership positions in rural settlements, we sought to evaluate the intensity, the types and quality of the (possible or actual) support offered by municipalities to economic activities inside the settlements. We sought to evaluate the results from theoretical lens formed around the notions of local development and the significance assumed by settlements in different locations. The results showed a fairly heterogeneous and, often, disparate in particular circumstances. It was evident, from the information collected, that a positive action of the municipal government in supporting the economic activities of the settlements is essential for the release of social energy based in settlements, enabling the realization of the "amalgam of possibilities" constructed from the implementation of rural settlements.

Subsistemas, comunidades e redes para a an��lise da participa����o no processo de políticas públicas

In recent literature, the concept of policy subsystem has occupied a central place in many theoretical models, it is considered prime unit of analysis in recent approaches to the policy process. Subject of intense theoretical discussion, when compared to related concepts such as policy communities, policy networks and policy issues, these concepts can contribute to the analysis of political participation process, characteristic of democratic governments. This present study aims to present a critical review of the literature on subsystems, policy issues, policy networks and policy communities, as well as discuss these concepts emphasizing the participatory potential of the actors who make up these spaces, seeking to contribute to the dialogue of studies in public policy and participation policy in Brazil.

Políticas públicas municipais de sa��de: fortalecendo a democracia em pequenos munic��pios brasileiros

This article presents the endeavors of health municipal teams in building services that meet citizens��� demands, in a small municipality from a less developed area of the state of S��o Paulo. Beyond health services practice characterization and organization, our study assesses the challenges and advances in the implementation of public, health policies in Brazil. In this way it is possible to perceive how the family health strategy needs to overcome impasses in the service work processes, as well as more dynamic local and regional relations to provide comprehensive care to citizens. Health care exemplifies how, in democracy building, municipal action is indispensable to strengthen the effectiveness of public actions.

Políticas participativas e a nova literatura de an��lise de políticas públicas: novos horizontes para agenda de pesquisa

From the organization of social movements in the late 1960s to the institutionalization of participatory politics in the Brazilian Federal Constitution in 1998 , the research agenda on participatory institutions in Brazil was not only consolidated in the academic setting as been growing and diversifying in the past decades. The main objective of this paper is to put the most recent literature of policy process applied to studies of participatory institutions. This paper assumes that the public policy are multidisciplinary epistemological field of knowledge. Thus, it is through the explanation of some of his theories and models of the policy process analysis that we aims to show new perspectives for the research agenda on participatory institutions.

Estudos em políticas públicas: cidadania, desenvolvimento e controle social

Os 13 artigos reunidos neste livro foram primeiramente apresentados em encontro internacional sobre participa����o, democracia e políticas públicas na Am��rica Latina, realizado em 2013 na Faculdade de Ci��ncias e Letras da Unesp. Para os organizadores da obra discutir o tema, principalmente no que concerne �� transpar��ncia dos sistemas de gest��o, �� extrema import��ncia para apontar dire����es para uma renova����o pol��tica, articula����es sociais e desenvolvimento socioterritorial. Eles explicam que a an��lise de marcos legais, fragilidades institucionais e pr��tica autorit��rias permitem enxergar o seu contr��rio e, com isso, aprimorar a pr��tica de políticas públicas voltadas ao desenvolvimento de um pa��s sustentado na democracia e na cidadania ativa. O livro �� divido em quatro eixos tem��ticos. O inicial apresenta artigos que analisam a cidadania relacionada �� sa��de, g��nero, preven����o ao abuso sexual e juventude. Abarca temas como o Sistema ��nico de Sa��de, os movimentos e grupos feministas e abuso sexual. O seguinte destaca temas ligados �� educa����o, tamb��m relacionados �� cidadania, como o financiamento da educa����o e a educa����o em pres��dios paulistas. Desenvolvimento e combate ��s desigualdades sociais norteiam os estudos da terceira parte. S��o tr��s artigos que tratam da complexidade da produ����o de políticas baseadas no di��logo entre pares institucionais, como representantes de governos e sociedade civil. O cap��tulo final �� dedicado ao tema controle social e aperfei��oamento da democracia. Os artigos abordam a quest��o do monitoramento das políticas e investimentos p��blicos por parte da sociedade civil.

Políticas públicas de mobilidade e assist��ncia a itinerantes: o caso dos trecheiros

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient��fico e Tecnol��gico (CNPq)

Educa����o e políticas públicas para o idoso

The ���Estatuto do Idoso��� (senior citizen statute), Brazilian federal law promulgated in 2003, defines senior citizen as the person with 60 years old, or more. Revered as a landmark recognition of the senior��s rights, it guarantees, among others, the right of education. According to the statutory provisions, the education is personal right of the elderly person and must be assured with absolute priority by the State, the family, the society, as well by entities. However, in practice, just few senior citizens enjoy the right of education, since this policy has not been developed with focus in the old age, since educational practices are aimed, in most cases, to the younger age groups. Nevertheless, some initiatives seek to invest in the education for the elderly, like happens with the University of the Third Age (U3A). Although this kind of initiatives have been reason of celebration such projects should be enforced and consolidated as an object of better political investment to enlarge the access to the education right to the senior citizens in general. Due to the visibility achieved by the senior population, a possible way to the establishment of services in the area of education, would be the formation of partnerships between educational institutions that understand old age as a potential expansion of cultural goods and production of knowledge.

Políticas Públicas: ruim com elas, pior sem elas

The following text was, in its origin, a paper written as a finaltask for the Post Graduation Program in Psychology at the Universidade Estadual Paulista ���J��lio de Mesquita Filho���. Here, a reflection about the public politics as well as a questioning its validity andimportance today in Brazil.

Políticas públicas: a constru����o de imagens e sentidos para o envelhecimento humano

The present study aims to analyze the Brazilian public policies made for the elderly citizen population and to examine their resonance in the production of senses and images on the process of aging. For this, we draw cartographies that could find producing figures of sense about the aging, passing through some politics formulated for to this age group, since the decade of 1920 until the creation of the ���Estatuto do Idoso���, in 2003. We checked that the appearance of public policies for the old age happened as an answer to the challenge of managing and controlling the aging process courses in front of the increase of the elderly citizen population. The ���Estatuto do Idoso��� is an important landmark of the management advance of the State upon the oldness and of the substitution of an philanthropic-assistance model for a preventive model which is based on the promotion of a healthy and productive longevity. With that, next to the figure of the sick and inactive elderly , it begins to appear figurations of a healthy and powerful aging, crossed by images of vitality and rejuvenation.

O ensino superior noturno no Brasil: hist��ria, crescimento e políticas públicas no in��cio do s��culo XXI

There are three distinct and complementary objectives The first objective is to present a short historical overview on the establishment of evening courses in Brazil (classes are held on weekdays, generally from 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm), including those in the higher education level, occurred on the middle of last century. The second objective is to demonstrate the growth of evening higher education, considering that in 1998, of the 2.1 million college enrollments, 55.3% were enrolled in evening courses; in 2010, twelve years later, of the 5.4 million students enrolled, there were 63.5% enrolled in evening courses. The third objective is to discuss current public policies to expand evening openings in public institutions which represent nowadays only 16.1% of the 3.4 million enrollments for evening classes. In the third objective it is included the discussion of programs for scholarships and tuition loans. The research results pointed to the importance of federal programs for scholarships and tuition loans for students from private institutions such as the 1,382,484 scholarships since 2004 (PROUNI Program) and the 847,000 tuition loans since 1999 (FIES Program). Important steps have been made by the Brazilian government. Considering that there are 3,987,424 enrollments in private institutions, the effectiveness of the programs for scholarships and tuition loans is still insufficient to meet the universal benefits for the student���s needs. Evening courses became the real instrument of social inclusion for many Brazilian youths and must be expanded quantitatively and qualitatively, with aggressive public policies, including also, scholarships and tuition loans.

Políticas públicas e vulnerabilidade social: uma reflex��o te��rica a partir de experi��ncia de est��gio

This article provides a theoretical reflection on the relationship between public policies and the social vulnerability of children and adolescents, based on the supervised internship of students of Psychology at UNESP/Campus Assis. The work revealed the need to examine the implications that social vulnerability concepts and public policies have in this area of professional activity. The study indicated the importance of addressing the ways that social vulnerability arises, and suggested possible contributions that psychology could make in the social sphere. The work highlights the need for the future psychologist to deepen his/her knowledge of these issues in order to develop a critical professional attitude that breaks from the approach in which individuals and/or their families are considered responsible for the processes that maintain them at risk.

Educa����o infantil e políticas públicas: algumas considera����es a partir de um estudo de caso

O presente estudo tem como objetivos discutir a fun����o da creche e da pr�����escola no contexto das políticas públicas para a educa����o infantil, bem como refletir sobre a forma����o necess��ria aos profissionais da educa����o infantil para alcan��ar uma melhor qualidade do atendimento. A pesquisa foi realizada por meio de um formato de investiga����o caracterizado como estudo de caso etnogr��fico. Essa forma de pesquisa nos permitiu conhecer, em maior profundidade, a cultura de uma institui����o e as perspectivas dos profissionais que participavam de seu cotidiano. Nesse sentido, realizamos observa����es sistem��ticas da rotina institucional, bem como, entrevistas n��o��� estruturadas e semi���estruturadas com as educadoras que atuavam na creche e na pr�����escola. O estudo evidenciou distin����es quanto �� escolaridade, �� jornada de trabalho das educadoras que atuavam na creche e na pr�����escola, bem como nos objetivos educacionais estabelecidos para essas modalidades de atendimento a inf��ncia. As concep����es das educadoras acerca dos objetivos da Educa����o Infantil retratam uma vis��o compensat��ria e preventiva.����