Políticas Públicas de Educação: um debate epistemológico

Abstract

This text brings an epistemological study in the field of public education policies with emphasis on the
multidisciplinary field. The objective is to analyze knowledge from the delimitation of studies on educational
policies. The research is based on the work of Janete Maria Lins de Azevedo (1997) and the scholar Stephen J.
Ball (2011). We added the critical examination of three articles published in specialized journals. Such research
sources were fundamental due to the theoretical-methodological approach that the authors adopted in their
research. They were the currents as theoretical currents based on the public production of education in the context
of the reform of the Brazilian neoliberal state. With this, we adopted the materialism-historical-dialectical method
created by Marx (1999; 1998). The designation that public education policies are part of a historical context
determined by asymmetrical power relations; the epistemic bases of educational policies are complex and
transdisciplinary, which makes this area a multidisciplinary field; and a contemporary knowledge of the study of
educational policies, in the scenario of neoliberalism comes the education of funding the study of the State x field
of study of scientific research.