A implementação descentralizada da política de educação profissional sob a perspectiva das redes: o caso do estado de Minas Gerais

The institutional network of the Professional Education policy in Brazil has been incorporating public, private, religious, parastatal, trade union and civil society organizations throughout its institutional-legal trajectory. The present dissertation starts from the reconstruction of this path, bringing to light the conceptions and roles assumed by both the Professional Education policy and the institutional actors responsible for its formulation and implementation. We sought to carry out a descriptive and qualitative analysis of politics in Brazil and in the state of Minas Gerais, combining efforts to identify the heterogeneous organizational environment traditionally involved in the actions of the theme, to analyze the participation of different actors in the main programs aimed at training for work and, in the specific case of Minas Gerais, for understanding the current functioning of the policy in terms of coordination, monitoring, evaluation and institutional articulation. It is necessary to highlight, with regard to qualitative analysis, the realization of semi-structured interviews with five key actors involved in the formulation and implementation of the Professional Education policy in Minas Gerais, which enabled the survey of perceptions that were subsequently analyzed under the prism of state capacities and conceptions that structure the field of policy networks. As the main finding of the research, the reports converged to the understanding that, currently, the Professional Education policy in the state of Minas Gerais is not formulated and implemented in a networkway, due to the inexistence of an organic structure guided by institutional exchanges, by the sharing of objectives and values and for the maturation of integrated actions. It was found that the administrative autonomy of the institutions, the absence of normative provisions that establish policy governance and the non-development of state capacities aimed at articulating, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the policy correspond to ...