Abstract
After approximately two decades in which the managerial perspective has predominated as the main framework for reformism in the Brazilian educational system, a crisis of imagination has emerged, generating a void that helps explain the current prominence of issues relating to morality and the ideological schisms now found within the education debate. Moreover, this situation has occurred in a country that still encounters serious problems ensuring the basic right to education. In the international literature, the crisis in managerialism has already been densely mapped, encouraging the development of new premises and concepts that seek to incorporate its main virtues and advance beyond its limitations. We refer to this literature as ‘post-managerialist,’ arguing that its reading can be valuable to fostering innovation in educational policies, recognizing the need to deepen the promises of the 1988 Constitution, which makes schooling a basic foundation of Brazilian democracy.
Keywords
Education and democracy; educational reform; managerialism; school management