Concepções dos professores em relação à gestão escolar democrática

Abstract

The purpose of this work was to understanding the conceptions on the democratic school management, coming from the teachers’ knowledge on the subject. Teachers from public schools in Lajeado and Santa Maria cities, both in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil were interviewed for this work. The methodology utilized was the qualitative which data collection trough the technique of open interviews allowed full freedom of speech in the answers. Some of the concepts about democratic school management were sketched in order to clear it up as a result from the democratic educational management, guided by educational policies. Locally, the democratic school management is constituted to attend the scholar community and allow them to take part in the same goal to be reached. In this context, it was intended to analyze what representations the public school teachers bring to discuss in relation to their own conceptions about school management that express democratic meaning. Such democratic meaning could be either the meaning prefixed by public policies, as the meaning they understand to be democratic for the scholar community.