Contribuições do pensamento de Paulo Freire para o campo da Gestão Educacional: uma análise sobre o conceito de autoridade

Abstract

Paulo Freire's pedagogical thinking is recorded in his writings, before, during and after his exile resulting from the military dictatorship (1964-1985). His contributions to the field of education are unequivocal, as asserted by Scocuglia (2003), Brandão (2006), Beisiegel (2008), among others. In this sense, we aim to analyze the contributions of the concept of authority in the book Pedagogy of Autonomy: necessary knowledge for educational practice (1997) for the field of educational management. Theoretically, we are based on Vitor Paro (1996) and Heloisa Luck (2009), with the purpose of reflecting on important concepts of educational management. From the methodological point of view, we constructed a bibliographical research, with an exploratory, selective, interpretative and qualitative character, according to Godoy (1995) that dialogues with documentary research by understanding its innovative character and its possibility of bringing important contributions to the study of the themes. Due to the general objective, the theoretical framework and the methodology used, data analysis suggests that the understanding of the concept of authority, based on Freire's (1997) readings, is deeply related to the ideas of freedom and respect for student autonomy within of the pedagogical space. Therefore, Freire builds a reflection that allows us to understand the concept of authority as a founding element for democratic management and for ethical and politically engaged pedagogical thinking/doing.