Abstract
In this article we discuss the meanings of educational micro-intervention carried out in community-based projects. We aimed to study the implications of the new rationales of public management and the management of social and school inequalities, present in the Programa InovAção [Innovation Program] (PI). The analysis of the data suggests the ambivalence of meanings and results of community micro-intervention: we observed practices, supported by broad social commitments, of collective construction of individual empowerment (the management of the self, learning the task of the pupil, normalising academic biographies); these practices were inhabited by tensions coming from the connection to remedial educational responses and guidelines towards the individualization and localisation of interventions facing school problems, which have by object the subjects excluded.
GOVERNANCE; SCHOOL FAILURE; SCHOOL DROP-OUT; SOCIOEDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES