摘要：This article discusses education as a social policy in the context of the educational reform under way in Brazil since the first half of the 1990s. It starts from the fact that the country has lived an intense process of educational reforms expressed in actions and measures which have altered the configuration of the system as well as the objective of the policies. Based on some theoretical references which are founded on studies and empirical researches, it discusses the processes of the State reform in Latin America countries and thus identifies a clear orientation to focalize the educa- tional policy in Brazil and obeying the same tendency in conducting social policies in general. The study also observes that such orientation is carried out in more complex reforms which involve public administration, adopting models of disregulation and descentralization which allow the focalization of social policies on the poorer populations, to the detriment of universal policies.
其他摘要：This article discusses education as a social policy in the context of the educational reform under way in Brazil since the first half of the 1990s. It starts from the fact that the country has lived an intense process of educational reforms expressed in actions and measures which have altered the configuration of the system as well as the objective of the policies. Based on some theoretical references which are founded on studies and empirical researches, it discusses the processes of the State reform in Latin America countries and thus identifies a clear orientation to focalize the educa- tional policy in Brazil and obeying the same tendency in conducting social policies in general. The study also observes that such orientation is carried out in more complex reforms which involve public administration, adopting models of disregulation and descentralization which allow the focalization of social policies on the poorer populations, to the detriment of universal policies.
关键词：Educational policies;Social policies;Educational reform;Education;Latin America.;Política educacional. Política social. Reforma educacional. Educação. América Latina.
其他关键词：Educational policies; Social policies; Educational reform; Education; Latin America.
