O gestor educacional e a democratização no processo de ensino: algumas indagações

Abstract

The study The educational manager and the democratization in the teaching process: some questions proposes a reflexion about the practices of the democratic management at school level. It also carries out a historical approach of the Brazilian education since the colonial period times when the school was authoritarian and excluding. Along with the social changes, the school has transformed itself, becoming more demanding and complex, demanding more partnership and responsibility in its management. The democratic management is indispensable in this change process. In the democratic management, the ability to think and work in teams is pointed out and it breaks the political subordination and ideological submission. The manager makes possible the democratic development in the school, allowing the participation in the core of the administrative and pedagogical practice. The knowledge building happens in a democratic environment, with the overcoming of differences without affecting the development of what is from the individual or collective, breaking a bureaucratic and authoritarian tendency. The building of the citizenship happens in the school environment, making clear that being a citizen is fully exerting, at social level, the rights and obligations based in the exercise of the citizenship.