Interview: policy, power and existence, with Flávia Monteiro de Barros Araújo

Abstract

In this interview, we are interested in addressing school education and teaching as a production of meanings. The present interview argues for an institutional “role”: the Municipal Secretary of Education, Science and Technology of Niterói, State of Rio de Janeiro, but does not lose sight of the person instituted in the position, who works in many sectors of the Education area, necessarily consonants. She is also a teacher; teacher and researcher trainer; woman in command; wife; citizen. We start from the assumption that what we describe as reality is a phenomenon produced by our intentionalities, such intentionalities are responses to the outside that constitutes, therefore, our production of existential senses or meanings, through rules, is always in tension with the world that fence. Thinking, building and executing educational public policies is a political exercise, understood with the art of living in the polis, of great complexity, necessarily conflicting, including in the intimacy of those who experience conflicting situations between self-interest and the institutional.