Network in public policy education
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2016
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I begin with the following question: How can we innovate in public policy education in the context of information and communication society? The project proposal of the Network for Public Policy (Rede de Políticas Públicas – RPP)1 has the objective to develop knowledge production and, at the same time, make public policy experiences by actors from different fields that are members of the network and commit themselves to the defense of collective interests. The proposal is to change the structure of thought. Instead of thinking about space planning the challenge is to thing about the action and the transformation of space. Planning is a category below the action and of instrumental nature; there can be actions that result from planning and others that result from social resistance. Following the methodological approach proposed by Ana Clara Torres Ribeiro, sociology should focus on the present and look to what exists2. With this intent, public policies are recognized to be organized in policies, such as: environmental protection, urban development, health, education. Our goal is to join in the same network research laboratories focused on the analysis of different public policies and their effects on the process of territory transformation. Its meaning is associated with the need to do a work experience that links theory with the practice of public policy. Clearly, modernity separates the academic thinking from political action when the institutions that are responsible for knowledge formulation are separated from the bodies responsible for implementation of public policies.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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