Dos primeiros escritos sobre administração escolar no Brasil aos escritos sobre gestão escolar: mudanças e continuidades

Abstract

Face to the changes in education, it is necessary to reflect on the field in which such innovations are placed in order to understand and act in these spaces with consciousness. Accordingly, this research presents the field in which the institutionalization of "Democratic Management of Public Education" provided the principle of public education in 1988 through the Brazilian Constitution. It introduces a new type of school organization, no longer based on the assumptions of the administration raised as hierarchical and bureaucratized, but the principles of management, perceived as more democratic. Thus, there is the proposition of reviewing the theoretical formation of the field in which these rules are defined to identify and understand the advanced theoretical concepts that build the foundations of school administration in Brazil; the principles of school management are in the context in which critics are made to the model of school administration and management, and identify the elements that converge to the institutionalization of democratic school management, distinguishing the changes and continuities in relation to the first elaborations of this field. Therefore, the research is supported in a qualitative approach, using the procedure of review of literature, presenting thus the interpretation of a fact material in written literature. Among the relationship between the theoretical bases of the administration and school management it can be identified the paradox between the economic and social forces, indicating that this field is still based on the division of labor founded on the capitalist organization of society. Simultaneously, it presents the possibility of changes in which the spaces of participation achieved in the democratic management can offer alternatives for building a democratic public space.