O exercício da cidadania ativa e da gestão democrática participativa de políticas públicas no conselho de educação do município de Juazeiro do Norte-CE.

Abstract

Assuming the problematic that the Public Policy Management Councils are mechanisms that make viable the citizen participation in the conduct of public politics existents in a participative democracy, the present work searches to respond if the way like the Municipal Education Council of Juazeiro do Norte, in the interior of the State of Ceará, has been structured and comes performing their duties, also enables that the Council serves as practice instrument of participative democracy and in the development of the citizenship in the context of educational public politics. In this way, the objective of this thesis consists in verify if the Municipal Education Council of Juazeiro do Norte, exist the necessary condition for the citizen and democratic politic participation occurs in the conduction of the educational politics in a municipal level. Against the contemporary background where one of the mainly instruments of state actuation it rests in the elaboration and implementation of public politics aiming the elaboration and implementation of public politics aiming fundamental and constitutional right’s satisfaction, reflect about the citizen participation on the planning and control of those public politics becomes fundamental. In that way, the thematic of this work becomes relevant to deepen the discussions about the public politics in a participative democracy context based on the promotion of a citizenship that encompass political rights, civilians and social ones, bound to the line of research Public Politics of Social Inclusion. Therefore, it was realized a bibliographic study about citizenship, investigating it’s begin, historical evolution and classifications presented by the specialized doctrine. In an analogue way, followed up with the presentation of the main theories which seek to investigate democracy from its inception in Greece until its consolidation and expansion from the configuration of the Modern State. Goes on with the analyses of the public participation and its relations with the citizenship and democracy to establish connections between those themes and the Public Policy Management Councils. After the presentation of the emergence, the characteristics and assignments of the Public Policy Management Councils, it was searched to demonstrate how those could represent mechanisms of politic participation starting from the promotion of citizenship and participative democracy finally, the results of the case, from the adoption of a deductive research, through the analysis of normative texts and documents concerning the Council Municipal Education in Juazeiro do Norte – CE, as well with As well as with interviews with its directors, where it was noticed that there were structural and functional conditions largely compatible with the hypothesis that the Public Policy Management Councils make possible the public participation on the part of the citizen in the conduct of the public policies that affects, being another viable participation mechanism for the construction of a participatory democracy.