O CONCEITO DE ESTADO EM GRAMSCI E AS SUAS APROPRIAÇÕES NAS PESQUISAS SOBRE POLÍTICAS EDUCACIONAIS

Abstract

This research is the result of studies and the restlessness about the production of scientific knowledge and the theoretical-methodological aspects within the research of educational politics, as well as the use of the works of Antonio Gramsci. This paper is tied to the Post-Graduation Program in Education of the State University of the Central West and has as the main objective to verify and to systemize the appropriation of the Gramsci Theoretical-methodological in the research of Educational Politics, with the focus on the State concept. Therefore, as the central issue of our paper we ask: in what way the researches about educational politics, with the contribution of the Gramsci Theoretical-methodological, appropriate the State concept? The data was collected from the Theses and Dissertations Bank of CAPES, between 2013 and 2016. We conducted a survey based on the historicity so that we walk the path of the arrival of the works of Gramsci at Brazil, we present a mapping of the use of his ideas as a theoretical and methodological reference and we identify how the appropriation of the Gramscian theory takes place on the academic research in graduate school. Therefore, we highlight some reading tendencies of Gramsci in Brazil: a) a more liberal aspect and; b) a more revolutionary aspect and we, also, start from the assumption that the Gramscian State concept is frequently contemplated in researches about educational politics, we highlight the importance in problematizing as the work of Gramsci is being appropriated by scholars of the field. In light of what has been treated on the chapters, one aspect was highlighted: in Brazil there are different reading fronts of Gramsci’s work, some more cultural and others with more of a political nature and there are still those that divide the reading of economy, philosophy, history and politics.