A política curricular produzida pela escola como contraponto a políticas educacionais contemporâneas. ; The curriculum policy produced by the school as a counterpoint to contemporary educational policies.

This study focuses a curricular policy, here named Complementary Projects (PCs), produced in schools of the public network of municipal schools of Pelotas/RS. It is understood that the PCs function as a counterpoint to the contemporary educational policies. These have been presented in chapters which address the management modes in dispute in the Brazilian educational context, as well as the curricular policies and the external evaluation policies. The research had a qualitative approach and was developed in two stages. The first was an exploratory study of the PCs in different schools of the municipal network and in the Municipal Department of Education and Sports – SMED. Based on the data collected in this stage, some aspects of the management of the PCs – both by SMED and the schools – are presented, as well as the effects of these projects on the development of students, in the perspective of school principals and teachers. The second stage was a case study of the theme at the Green School, which has counted with interviews, observation and document analysis. The theoretical-methodological tool employed for the analysis was Stephen Ball’s Policy Cycle. Data obtained in the exploratory stage indicate that initiatives of a managerialist perspective have been introduced in the municipal government since 2011. As a consequence SMED, through its Project Department, has adopted a policy of control of the PCs – expressed in a standard model to be followed in the elaboration of the projects, and in the gradual liberation of teacher time for their development. Both initiatives threaten the democratic management perspective contemplated in the schools’ Political-Pedagogical Projects (PPPs), constituting restraints for teachers’ pedagogical and professional autonomy. As a counterpoint, the PCs are produced in/by schools, focus the students, involve concerns such as teacher profile and adequate physical space for their development, and expect to produce effects that contribute for student growth. On the other hand, ...