More Education Program: breakthroughs and challenges for an inducing strategy of full time Integral Education

This article shares part of the debates about the strategy to enlarge schooling day in an Integral Education perspective for Primary and Secondary Education. The strategy has been proposed by the More Education Program, which has been developed by The Ministry of Education in partnership with States and Municipalities, since 2008. Its focus is to find and propose a modus operandi for the progressive and continuous reorganization of the public school in that perspective according to the macro fields defined by the Presidential Decree 7083/2010. Our aim is to criticize the division of schooling life in shifts of studies and to propose some actions required for overcoming it. We consider, on one hand, the fixed main shift in which the traditional disciplines prevail and that constitutes the hard core of the curriculum; on the other hand, we also consider a flexible second shift in which the activities that can make the "schooling time pleasant" prevail. This paper has as background the efforts made by the Ministry of Education in order to regroup and motivate different institutional actors of Brazilian education in the construction of a political and pedagogical agenda in favor of integral education.