This master’s thesis, as an integral part of the Post-Graduate Program in Education of the University of Brasilia (UnB), follows the Line of Research related to Public Policy and Management in Education. The aim of this paper was to investigate the participation of lobbyists in the legislative process which culminated in the promulgation of the Law nº 4751 of February 7, 2012, regulating the education system and the democratic management of the Public Education System in the Federal District (DF). The general objective was to analyze the participation of lobbyists and the relations established while the bill on the democratic management of the Public School System of the Federal District (Bill nº 588/2011) was being processed, and their possible influence on the final draft of the Law, understood as public management policy of basic education in the Federal District. This research is in alignment with the Marxist tradition, employing as a method materialist dialectics and critical discourse analysis as an examination procedure of speeches by parliamentarians, trade unions and associations of teachers, principals, students and parents at three public hearings held by the local Assembly of the Federal District in 2011. These hearings had as a theme the democratic management of the Public School System of the Federal District. Results of this research highlighted lobbying practices of pressure groups, as well as insertion of demands within parliamentary amendments and consideration of corporate interests in the final draft of the Law nº 4.751/2012. In conclusion, there was evidence that pragmatism employed by social movements of educational employees contributed to the division of this working class when lobbyists acted competitively in promoting their special interests at the expense of the universal struggle in favor of collective emancipation.

Author: NELSON ADRIANO FERREIRA DE VASCONCELOS
Source: http://icts.unb.br/jspui/handle/10482/14034