Capacity evaluation of public education policies in the city of cachoeira-ba: the potential of digital technologies in the subject's emancipation process.

The theme of this research is the evaluation of the ability to offer educational public policies intertwined with the level of adoption of digital technologies, in the process of emancipation of the subject. The category in which the research is located is an instrumental and descriptive case study. The research was developed in the context of the production of public goods and services in the city of Cachoeira-BA, more specifically in the scope of the offer of education policies intertwined with digital technologies in basic education. The objective of this research was to evaluate the ability of public educational policies to offer, intertwined with digital technologies as enhancers of the subjects' political emancipation. Specifically, the challenges imposed to the (re) definition and implementation of new standards for the management of educational policies were analyzed, understanding the interrelations between State, Society and Market. The CPBS-Capacity for the production of goods and services and the IP-Productivity Index for all schools were estimated. Finally, the level of adoption of digital technologies by each school and the set of schools was assessed. The type of research adopted was the empirical one, being carried out a survey of data from governmental publications and technical reports with INEP, IBGE, MEC, SEI-BA and in loco in schools, education department of Cachoeira and the state of Bahia , followed by a documentary analysis, taking a quantitative and qualitative approach, and an inductive method. As for the techniques used to collect the data, these basically consisted of unsystematic observation and analysis of the documentation. The results achieved indicated that: the idle capacity of public education in the city has structural problems; the political community is steeped in patrimonialism and authoritarianism; there is a lack of medium and long-term strategic planning; there was no public school that had joined the Connected Education Innovation Program; the rural area has a significant presence in the final computation, both in the number of school units and in the number of students actually enrolled; there is a low degree of specialization in schools; there is a mixture of ages and type of education respectively in the same environment/shift; there is a mix of students of different age groups in the same classroom; there is a large idle capacity of the education system, mainly in public schools; there is no shortage of vacancies in education in the city from the general perspective, however, when separated by levels of education, early childhood education has a negative idle capacity; the segment of early childhood education and high school are in deficit; that the productivity index is 0.77; and that the level of adoption of digital technologies for the municipality's territory is emerging. That said, it was concluded that the thinking and acting referred to in this study as Political Administration in Cachoeira, are in many times disarticulated, decontextualized and in opposite directions, and that, from the point of view of local governments, it was more important to exercise a policy aimed at maintaining power, than letting oneself always be guided by the purpose of the well-being of the academic community.