Gestão democrática e a participação da família na escola

Abstract

This study addresses the democratic management and family participation in school, emphasizing the democratic management of public education, as a principle of education provided by the Federal Constitution in 1988, which refers to a new organization of the school in its management. Based on the understanding that the democratic management set by the participation of everyone involved in school management, we sought to investigate in a municipal school system in Fortaleza-CE school management actions which promote the participation of the family, to produce knowledge to reality to rethink or redirect the areas of participation experienced in school research participant. Given that educational policies have been quoted referring to relevant agents of participation, collective dialogue that strengthens the democratic management. In this sense the research was guided by the following objectives: to understand the concept of democratic management of the school, explaining the concept of participation in this management model, to analyze the opportunities for family participation in the democratic management of the school, from the current educational policies; identify the concept of participation that the family, school community and school managers, teachers and staff have and what actions promote democratic management of family participation in school, based on an empirical research conducted in a municipal school system in Fortaleza- EC. To this end, this research relied on a qualitative approach, using research literature procedure and empirical research based on the daily life of a school, promoting reflection on the participatory democratic management, family, community and school managers, seeking an improvement in teaching and learning and greater involvement of the family or guardians in the activities of the school environment. The results of the survey reveal that the school truly lives a new moment, the construction of autonomy and the collective, a priority of its agents participation and dialogue, to revisit old practices for new construction, especially to review PPP school, so after a reflection on how to improve community participation in rebuilding the country and strengthening the ties of PPP interaction already built.