Gestão escolar como prática para a participação democrática e autonomia do sujeito

Abstract

This paper discusses School Management as a practice for democratic participation and autonomy of the subject. It also seeks to understand the practice of democratic school management as a prerequisite for the formation of citizens aware of the concepts of democratic participation and the exercise of autonomy. This way, the present research aims to examine how school management uses the channels of participation, legally established as the School Board, the collective construction of the Political-Pedagogical Project, among others, to promote democracy in school. According to this point of view, the aim of this research is: to analyze the concepts of subject participation, democracy, autonomy, citizenship, and economic globalization and to understand their implications in school organizations; to check how the process of democratic management occurs in schools focusing on the spaces of participation which this type of organization provides; to observe the way spaces of participation legally defined have been used in the process of school management in a public school in Fortaleza - CE and to identify the potential of the school environment as a place to exercise democracy and citizenship, starting from the democratic management. Based on results from empirical research and on a bibliographical review, it was possible to analyze theoretical concepts related to democratic management and identify, from the reality of a municipal school in Fortaleza - CE, the fact that the legal existence of mechanisms for participation in school management does not ensure their practice, which shows an advance in democratic management only in terms of regulation of its legal mechanisms. These mechanisms / spaces for participation need to be better clarified in their design and operation, otherwise we will continue to remain in a bound form of administration / management permeated by traits of state domination and authoritarianism which stops the autonomy of the institution and that of the subjects who take part in it from developing.