Concepções de participação nas políticas educacionais: fundamentos sócio-históricos

Abstract

The text presents the participation conceptions that have been developing in institutionalized social practices of education present in studies published in Education & Society (E&S) journal. The adopted theoretical references questions the relationship between individual and society in modernity proposed by liberal theories and the criticism to them carried out by Marx and Mészáros, informing the contradictions and challenges posed by participatory processes in contemporary world. Studies show the displacement of social and political participation idea, as effective control of decision-makers by the subjects of labor, to the participation idea as a "management technique" of public services.