O presente e o passado dos planos: a necessidade de aprendizagem com o compasso da/na história

Abstract

This paper focuses on two sides of long-range educational policies in Brazil: the constitutional dispositions regarding intergovernmental cooperation and the national educational plans. In its historical overview, this work stresses the difficulties in the improvement of the democratic state and the federation, as well as the oscillatory movement between centralization and de-centralization in education. In this context, it analyses the experience of the First National Education Plan, comparing it to the corresponding requirements. It finds that some political processes lead public policies to deviate from their goals or even to distort the latter. As a result, it is necessary to learn these historical lessons in favor of the Second National Education Plan.