Educational Equity in the State and Municipal Education Plans of Northeastern Brazilian States: A Documentary Analysis

Abstract

This study deals with themes related to Brazilian government policies with a focus on basic education. It aimed to analyze the use of the term educational equity in the State and Municipal Education Plans of the Brazilian Northeastern States and their respective capitals. This is a documentary study. Three stages were carried out: 1) searches on the official websites of the nine Secretariats of Education, Legislative Assemblies and City Councils of the state governments and municipalities of the nine northeastern states and their respective capitals, with the aim of identifying the state education plans of the states (PEE) and the municipal education plans (PME) of the capitals of northeastern Brazil; 2) identification of the term equity in these documents; 3) preparation of electronic spreadsheets recording the findings of the searches carried out. It was observed that: all the state and municipal plans (capitals) in the northeast of the country are available on websites; the term equity was used in all the plans, but they do not present or propose a conceptualization of the term; the National Education Plan is a model for the PEEs and PMEs. It is concluded that in the documents analysed, the term equity is associated with: guaranteeing equal access to and permanence in school and providing equal use of physical structures; raising the level of teacher training for all schools and raising the level of education, with priority for social groups and the socially and historically vulnerable population.



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Otavio Correia de Melo Neto, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil
Alcimar Éneas Rocha Trancoso, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil
Raíssa Matos Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil
Adélia Augusta Souto de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil
Paula Orchiucci Miura, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil
Clara Mariani Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil
José Weverton Pereira da Silva, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil

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Conference: BCE2024
Stream: Educational policy

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To cite this article:
Neto O., Trancoso A., Ferreira R., Oliveira A., Miura P., Oliveira C., & Silva J. (2025) Educational Equity in the State and Municipal Education Plans of Northeastern Brazilian States: A Documentary Analysis ISSN: 2435-9467 – The Barcelona Conference on Education 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 643-649) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-9467.2024.56
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-9467.2024.56


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