The objective of this paper is to identify how the current practice of the Program "Bairro Escola", from the city hall of Nova Iguaçu, in the State of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), answers it´s own stipulated development goals. This program works with partnerships with the Non Governmental Sector or others and the main objective is to offer full time education (in integral turn) by associate workshops of culture and sport with activities of school reinforcement. On this research we use the definition of culture as the cultural manifestations formal organized and institutionalized. The definition for development is based on Furtado (1984), where the development is shown as a concept based in substantive ends, and is not only about economic factors. The relation between culture and development is based on Santos (2008) and Furtado (1984), where the culture is a creative source for an endogenous process of development. We have collected primary and secondary data. For the analysis, it has been created indicators from the categories: culture, development and the relation between culture and development. It has indicate that the Program Bairro Escola is no long functioning like it has been planned, mainly due to have no resources and no infrastructure. A strong difference can be observed between the speech of the interviewed ones that work in the schools and the official speech. As Furtado said (1984), the case of the Program Bairro Escola illustrates that many obstacles need to be removed to the creative freedom conduce to a ideal relation between culture and development.
Culture; Development; Cultural policy
