The present study examines the impacts of actions resulting from educational policies on the dynamics of school organization, from the perspective of a group of teachers of a Municipal School System in the Metropolitan Area of Porto Alegre, RS. The analyses are structured on the conceptions of life-world (HABERMAS, 1999, 2001), school life (MCLAREN, 1997) and the sociology of school organization (BALL, 1989, 2006). Evidence was collected by means of document analysis, semi-structured interviews, written narratives, and discussion group. A group of teachers with ten years teaching practice at those schools participated in the study. Their reflections reveal that, in view of the actions resulting from the educational policies, the teachers' attitude is either of agreement/ or disagreement, whose complexity, in this study, is separated into three qualitative dimensions: participation, imagination and alienation.
Educational policies; School organization; Teacher perspective