2018-02-272018-02-272002-12PAIVA, Wilson Alves de. Descentralização político-administrativa da educação no Brasil: entre velhos e novos paradigmas. Intera-Ação, Goiânia, v. 27, n. 2, p. 67- 83, jul./dez. 2002. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/interacao/article/view/1527/1508>.e- 1981-8416http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/13788This text main objective is to contribute with the discussion around the political-administrative decentralization of Brazilian education. The author begins his analysis in the decentralizing tendencies of the Colonial Period. He analyzes the invigoration of that tendency along the centuries and the different paradigms that have been orientating it. And he concludes analyzing the current role of the municipal district before the social, politic and educational changes of the last years. The study of documents and books that deal with the matter points to a conclusion that, in spite of old, the strive now brings new paradigms and it proposes unexpected facts.porAcesso AbertoMunicipalizaçãoDescentralizaçãoParadigmas educacionaisLDBMunicipalizationDecentralizationEducational paradigmsEducation lawsArtigo10.5216/ia.v27i2.1527