Gestão democrática participativa na escola pública: algumas observações em Iaçu-BA

Abstract

This paper addresses the importance of democratic and participatory management in public school environment, taking into account actions developed by school managers in order to implement this practice. For this, we have the general objective, which is to understand how Democratic Management is implemented in the context of a public school, in the municipality of Iaçu-Bahia. This writing is based on authors such as: Manzini (2004), Santos (2008), Lima (2001), Sander (2005), among other theorists used to provide a better understanding of the subject. As for the methodological approach, it is anchored in qualitative research with an emphasis on field research and had as data collection procedures the application of semi-structured interviews with the managers of that institution. Initially, a brief history of school management in Brazil is presented, soon after, it is discussed how Democratic and participatory Management occurs in public schools. At another section of the work the Political and Pedagogical Project of the public school is discussed as an instrument of Democratic Management. After that, we have the methodological chapter, followed by the data analysis, where it is possible to infer about the proposed objectives and thus perceive if these were sufficient to achieve the results through this field research. At last we present the final considerations, where we found that the management of the researched school has characteristics that ensure the democratic management and teaching, despite the fact that there is a greater concern of the managers precisely in relation to the lack of adhesion of many parents to the monitoring of the school routine of their children/sons/daughters.