A legitimação da autoridade: desdobramentos e implicações aos processos de gestão democrática da educação

Abstract

The present paper is aimed at discussing the issue of authority and understanding concepts, ideas and practices through its implications for the process of democratic management of education, trying to analyze the social legitimacy and to assess elements of authority relations in educational contexts through the focus of democratic management. This concept emphasizes the management proposals for the reorganization of educational institutions – according to this perspective, it is necessary to rethink the forms of action and operational management in the most decentralized proposals and the sharing of power. In order to make it satisfactorily, not only as an obligation through law, the relations of authority need to be constructed and legitimized by the overcoming of its hierarchical nature. Thus, the research is concerned with the polysemy of the concepts of authority and the construction of mechanisms for participation in the context of democratic management, from a qualitative methodology to stamp that was used in a theoretical framework to clarify the components which operate in the dynamics of these relations.