Desafios da gestão democrática na escola pública: entraves e superações.

Abstract

The objective of this research was to understand the challenges of implementing democratic management in the public school, and its possibilities of overcoming it through the participation of the family-community in the decisions taken in the processes of Organization of Pedagogical Work (OTP). This had as a structural question of study alignment: in what way can democratic management be implemented in the public school based on the political and administrative conjunctural structures that one possesses? This production is a qualitative study, with bibliographic and documentary research approaches, semistructured interview techniques, and simple categorization of the data collected. It was based mainly on Paro (1992), Libâneo (2008), Veiga (2013), Gadotti (2013) and Lima (2014), as well as for the Training Boards for School Boards of the Ministry of Education (2004). The study was guided by a field research carried out with the manager, coordinator, teacher, student, president of the Council and the mother of a student, subjects belonging to the State education network of the municipality of Lavras da Mangabeira-CE. The research demonstrated that there is the possibility of implementing democratic management in the public school provided there is in the school context an awareness raising and commitment of the subjects involved in the school co-management process as the basis for a consolidated teaching-learning in the school unit. What depends on the intention to democratize the labor relations in a school context for a human-critical formation that fosters the exercise of citizenship, living democratic principles and political clarification about the structure of the social relations of production of life. In order for teachers and teaching professionals to understand how the processes of organizing the school's pedagogical work take place, managers are required to have a broader view of new management paradigms and, at the same time, school community needs to acquire through the participation the awareness of its role in the construction of the public school. In this movement, therefore, it is important to form citizens in the practice of co-management based on the principles of democracy, for the human-political formation of the subjects who participate in the processes of organization and development of their social spaces in relation to their conditions of life.