BETWEEN INTENTIONS AND RESULTS: A STUDY ON IMPLEMENTATION OF EDUCATIONAL POLICIES IN THE PANDEMIC CONTEXT
Implementation of Public Policies. Educational Guidelines. Decision-making. Pandemic.
This research proposal dialogues with studies on the implementation of public policies, with special emphasis on the guidelines established by the education departments for the return to classes in schools during the pandemic. Studies on implementation consider that relational and interaction processes between actors necessarily influence the process of implementing public policies (Arretche, 2001, Elmore, 1979; Gomes, 2019; Leite and D'Ascenzi, 2013; Lotta, 2012, 2019 ; Oliveira and Abrucio, 2018, among others) and that, depending on how this occurs, there may be positive or negative consequences in the outcome of the policy. In view of the novelty and challenges posed by the new coronavirus pandemic, the main objective of this study is to map how guidelines and guidelines defined in the formulation plan by a Municipal Department of Education were implemented in practice by the schools of its education network. How the implementing agents at the end of the system appropriate these norms, what possible implementation bottlenecks can be identified and what answers are given to these are analytical elements that will guide the empirical work of this research. The municipal education department of Natal/RN and its schools are taken as a case study.