A importância do conselho escolar no processo de gestão democrática: o legal e a prática

Abstract

School presents itself as autonomous, as it promotes a critical and transformative environment of the reality which encompasses the social majority. The School Council as the highest instance of democracy within the academic institution shall be responsible for ensuring freedom of thought from the perspective of collective construction by all social actors involved in the educational process. In spite of this, it is possible to notice gaps between the School Council and its performance in school when analyzing it in greater details, which implies in not so democratic, decentralized and autonomous relations. Facing this possible reframing of the School Council´s role, it is presented the proposal of analyzing how the performance of the School Council versus Academic Management from School X, which belongs to the Fortaleza municipal, works. To do so, it was considered a qualitative approach, using as procedure the documental and bibliographic research, and also a field research with interviews and questionnaires. Among the relations established between the theoretical basis and the School Council from X institution, it is possible to identify the paradox of participatory democracy mentioned by the legislation of official documents and the unproductive attitude of a board that has not yet been instituted as independent and democratic, a Council which submits itself to Direction, a lack of information and knowledge on how the board should proceed, bureaucratic difficulties and, finally, a practice relegated to the elite. Therefore, there is a lot to go through in order to have a School Council from School X that may promote participation and democracy.