A gestão escolar democrática na concepção dos profissionais da educação

Abstract

The present monograph investigated the conception of Democratic School Management, presented by the professionals of the education in a Municipal School of Basic Education of the city of Sapucaia do Sul (RS). With intention to reach the purpose of the work that came to configure itself in a case study, a qualitative research was proceeded, using an open questionnaire applied the representatives of the directive team, pedagogical team and teaching team. It was questioned about the understanding regarding the word “democracy”, about the definition of Democratic School Management, about the recognition of its mechanisms. It was also made questions on subjects related to the thematic and pertinent to the context in this research field. After theoretical revision regarding the subject based on authors as Paro (2007) as well as considerations concerning the peculiar context where the investigated subjects are inserted, the collected data was submitted to the content analysis in agreement with Bardin (1979), moment where the given information was joined by subject and related with what the authors speak about that. As result of the research it was evidenced that the collected definitions of Democratic School Management presents a considerable accordance with the theory presented by the authors who approach the subject, however the agreement regarding the word democracy presents an evident division between the wide conception and the restricted one of the term. Moreover, almost in general, there is no recognition of the mechanisms of the Democratic School Management, as well as a solid knowledge regarding the relative subjects of this thematic, which shows the need to promote for the education professionals the study and the debate on the subject, expanding the theoretical knowledge about the subject so bigger perspectives of its practical applications can arise.