Gestão escolar: delineando seu formato democrático e participativo e suas possíveis formas de materialização

Abstract

This research has raised the discussion on school management, particularly concerning its democratic and participatory characteristic. Thus, we have chosen as a theme, the process of democratic and participatory management in school teaching. The term describes the managing process that allows for the full and balanced participation by members of a population, in the decisions. Specifically in the realm of school teaching, democratic and participatory management is the managing process that starts from the Principal’s power decentralization, thus permitting the school professionals’ participation, such as: teachers, students, headmasters, supervisors, counselors, secretaries and other clerks, as well as the outside community (parents and others), to take part in the financial, pedagogical and administrative aspects of the school unit. For this task, our general aim was to analyze the school management process in formal education, starting from the explicitness of its democratic and participatory format in school, as well as its possible forms of materialization. At the level of the specific aims, we intended to place school management within formal education; to describe participatory and democratic management in school. There were above all, questions about factors and indicators which must be considered and/or pointed out, so that the process can be implemented and/or materialized. The analysis perspectives that oriented this study were the historical and cultural ones, in order to make it easier the school management understanding. As for the methodology, we chose the bibliographical research, besides the field and documental research, as we have used data and facts collected from the present reality. The analysis was done by considering interconnection of analysis perspectives and theoretical movement, and vice versa.