Gestão escolar: uma prática em transformação

Abstract

“School Management: a practice in transformation” intends to reflect on school management as a transforming educational practice. This monograph is the result of a bibliographical research, which subject questions how the paradigmatic change happens as a transforming practice on the school management, aiming to analyze then changing from the centralizing and bureaucratic conception to a decentralizing and interactive view, approached under a democratic perspective. Furthermore, it discusses the consequences of managing an institution in an innovative way through democratic management, getting to know the functions of the school management nowadays. This study reveals that the management as transforming practice only happens when the people involved believe that they can change and work in a collective way. Finally, this study allows us to realize that the school management needs to get out of the dream dimension, and enters effectively into action, as a practice in transformation, in order to stimulate the participation of all.