From Text to Context: Programa Ensino Médio Inovador (Innovative High School Program) on the Move

Abstract

This article provides an analysis of an educational policy based on the production of its referential texts. For this aim, the theoretical reflections of S. Ball on the Policy Cycle Approach are used. A recent educational policy, the Programa Ensino Médio Inovador (Innovative Middle School Program) - ProEMI, is studied in face of the documents produced in a short period of time as well as the intentions of the Program of bringing about changes in the High Secondary School curricular organization. The analysis points to a hypothesis that the alterations in the documents result, at least in part, from a process of accommodation between what is prescribed by the government agency and the conditions for the implementation of the Program as well as the breadth of the universe of interlocutors involved.

Educational policy; High secondary school; Programa ensino médio inovador; Policy cycle approach