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LIMA, Antonio Bosco de; RAIMANN, Ari  y  SANTOS, Fernando dos. Democratic State and the conception of democracy and representativeness in Municipal Councils of Education in Brazil. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.57, pp.307-325.  Epub 07-Feb-2020. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.18.057.ds01.

The article problematizes the question of representativeness present in Municipal Councils of Education. For its development, the authors explain the concept of bourgeois Democratic State. In the first moment, they highlight the relationship between State, democracy, representativeness and participation, starting from a bibliographical research. In the second part, they focus on the experience gained on the role and function of counselors in the Municipal Councils of Education (CMEs), based on a research conducted from two national meetings on municipal education councils in Brazil. The first one was held in the city of Jataí / GO and the second one was held in the city of Uberaba / MG. They emphasize that the counselor’s activities are held in a field of dispute, in that the institutionalized Councils tend to reproduce the hierarchical relations of the Municipal Education Departments; however, the Councils are not based only on a simple role of representation, since the counselors have a differentiated social, political, and life history, meaning that they do not simply reproduce what the department requires. This gives rise to a history in each council, that is linked to its place, to the social movements of that city, to the societal organization of that people, and finally to the educational and cultural construction that takes on a different role for each Council.

Palabras clave : State; Democracy; Municipal Council of Education; Representativity; Participation.

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