DEMOCRACIA E EDUCAÇÃO: CONSELHOS MUNICIPAIS COMO ESPAÇOS DE APRENDIZAGEM

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to consider the potential of educational and integration in the existing democratic practices starting from the theorists of participatory and deliberative democracy. From this perspective thinking about how public policy councils fit into this paradigm and look at the existing educational opportunities in these new instances. To this end, we will draw resort to interviews with several counselors who were part of the Council of Social Monitoring and Control of FUNDEF in its ten years of existence in the city of Juiz de Fora. Conceiving that this experience has in common with other councils, and thus contribute to a better understanding of these public spaces not merely as instruments of management, but as spaces that help build a new political culture more participatory.