O papel do diretor na construção de uma escola pública democrática

Abstract

This study has as objective discuss the role of the director while public school manager as well as practice your protagonist on the construction of a school based on participation, collective and autonomy. This is a literature search with a qualitative approach, based, among others, in authors Heloísa Lück (2005; 2006) e Vitor Paro (2003; 2010; 2015). As a result, the study demonstrated the compliance with legal guidelines it's not enough for that the school management is in fact democracy, because, in many cases, although the choice of the policy team be democratic, still you can tell director-centric management, with little opening to the participation of all. Besides, demonstrated the need of the director be a facilitator/mediator of relations, to stimulate the dialogue and the participation of all segments, so that the group create a new culture, rooted in democratic principles. Like this, it is concluded that it is necessary to resume dialogue, deepening and investigating the theme on the role of director, as well as understand and value the continuing education as a possibility to make correlations with reality, estimating personal perspectives and risks for deployment of new learning, in addition to exercise creativity when planning deeds of innovation of procedures for a more participatory management.