SILVA, M. D. L.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0525359022140138; SILVA, Maria Daniele Leandro da.
Resumo:
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.