Abstract

GIROTTO, Eduardo Donizeti; PASSOS, Felipe Garcia; CAMPOS, Larissa de  and  OLIVEIRA, João Victor Pavesi de. The geography of schools’ reorganization: a spatial analysis from the city of São Paulo. ETD [online]. 2017, vol.19, suppl., pp.134-158. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v19i0.8647805.

This article presents the partial results from the project The Schools' Reorganization in Maps, developed in the Teaching and Courseware Lab (LEMADI) of the Geography Department of USP, with the objective of demonstrating the importance of a spatial analysis in the understanding of educational policies, representing spatialities and correlating phenomena, processes that are primordial to sustain the arguments that base decision making and the defense of quality public schooling for all. We present a discussion using maps from the city of São Paulo in order to demonstrate the limits of the main arguments presented by the Education Secretariat in the defense of the schools’ reorganization proposal, as well as to discuss if the valorization of urban spaces is one of the non-explicit reasons for this reorganization. In our considerations we signalize that the demographic decline argument used by the government does not sustain itself, given that the there is not an automatic conversionto the number of enrolls. We have inferred that the reorganization gives continuity to the municipalization of state schools, which begun in 1995, and that it has direct relation with the process of spatial valorization, since there is a correlation between the closing schools, real estate launches and major mobility infrastructure works.

Keywords : Schools’ Reorganization; Urban Space; Cartography.

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