O processo de construção democrática em uma escola pública de João Pessoa (PB)

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the process of democratic construction in a public school in João Pessoa-PB, in which it tends to provide normative discussions according to the regulatory documents of education. Its importance was to problematize social experiences in educational spaces, emphasizing the quality of the educational system, which requires participatory democratic management, built and reconstructed by the educators themselves involved in the schooling process, as well as parents of students and residents of the community. With a general objective, to analyze how the process of democratic construction of a public school occurs, how to specify the conception of the management team on participatory democratic management; identify and contextualize the contributions to the construction of a democratic school. Therefore, it was based on the collection of data on school diagnosis, observation of participants and notes in a field diary, in order to contemplate the more general aspects of the school, such as infrastructure, pedagogical aspects, its history and its documents. These instruments proposed to better understand the complexity in which democratic construction is inserted. In this segment, through semi-structured interviews, the manager's demographic data, his conceptions about the role of director and democratic actions in a participative school are addressed. The school had the result of a participative democratic management, in the sense of the challenge of striving for an organizational culture centered on the sharing of ideas, always seeking in daily life, basic alternatives for the association of efforts, implementing problem solutions, avoiding divisions and solidifying group commitments. It is concluded that the challenge would be to break the traditional practice of the state, which imposes itself on the role of the director. However, in this way the state robs it of the incentives for participatory democratic management.