A gestão escolar democrática como possibilidade de exercício da cidadania a ser vivenciada na escola

Abstract

The monograph entitled "The Democratic School Management as a possibility for citizenship to be experienced in school" had as main objective to raise chances of a School Management focused on citizenship and social transformation. To map possibilities for its effectiveness sought to understand how the democratic School Management has been designed by different authors and national legislation and understand how effective autonomy in the school environment. For this, a qualitative research was used from bibliographic nature, appropriating me from the laws that defend democratic management and the exercise of citizenship and the ideas brought by authors such as Gandin, Gadotti, Libâneo, Luce, Paro, Teixeira, among others. To seek grants in defense of popular participation, it was noted that School Administration differs from Democratic School Management. The first refers to the principles and methods of the mercantile capitalist enterprise, for-profit, exploration and conformation of the excluded. The second has emancipatory goals, supports the participation of all for a better society. In this sense, it is given autonomy to school, as a principle of effectiveness of Democratic School Management. The autonomy, in turn, can be divided into three areas: administrative, financial and educational. The autonomy administrative concerns the choice of the director and his deputy through direct vote by the school community and the participation of the different members that compose the school community in school decisions through the school board. Already the pedagogic autonomy is given through the collective construction of the school's Educational Project and the ongoing training to professionals of education. The financial Autonomy, in turn, brings us to the allocation of public resources for the school. It can be said therefore that even being defended incessantly, the Democratic School Management still finds mishaps for its effectiveness, among them we can detach the hierarchy in the school environment, often inaugurated by the management team. The management here advocated quests the full exercise of citizenship for the whole school community, seeking to form a new conception of the world and a more egalitarian and humane society.