Política, cidadania e democracia como categorias constitutivas do pensar da gestão escolar

Abstract

The present research aims to understand the participants of the Training Course for Managers in Popular Education - FOGEP (2020), regarding politics, citizenship and democracy as categories of thought. Due to the research object, the following question/problem was formulated: to what extent are politics, citizenship and democracy constitutive categories of the understanding of school management by FOGEP course participants? Our general objective was to analyze the correlation between these three categories in the constitution of thinking/doing in school management in this group. Specifically, we seek to reflect on politics as a category of thought; discuss citizenship as an existential dimension of education professionals; contextualize democratic management as a constitutional and pedagogical principle; and, dialogue with managers, specialists and members of the school council about the correlation between politics, citizenship and democratic management. We dialogue theoretically with Covre (1991) about citizenship; with Maar (2006) and Freire (2001) on politics; with Lück (2009) on school management. Due to the analysis of the object, a qualitative theoretical-methodological approach was carried out. As for data collection, we used the focus group, with the dynamics of associating ideas to the generating words, which was attended by 3 (three) course participants who participated in the FOGEP course. The analysis suggests that, faced with the categories of politics, citizenship and democracy, the participants demonstrate conceptual and abstract understandings, which allow them to operate both in an analysis of the national political context, with conjunctural readings of the Brazilian reality, and of the school management processes, which make part of their daily work in public schools.