O processo de implementação e atuação do conselho escolar numa escola pública municipal de São Leopoldo (RS)

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the process of implementation and operation of the School Board at a public school in the municipal São Leopoldo (RS), as well as verify the spaces of action and consolidation in the proposals for this collegiate political-pedagogical developed mainly in as regards the construction of democratic management school. The motivations for the development of this research are due to approval of the Municipal Law No. 7.320/2010, which provides for the establishment and organization of the School Board Public Schools Municipal of São Leopoldo, challenging situation within the network and the school management. To this end, we used the approach qualitative, Case Study (Gil, 2002). As the data collection instrument, availed himself of the questionnaire and documentary research, focusing on the analysis of municipal legislation, Project-Political-Pedagogical and minutes of meetings of the School Board of the School concerned. Survey participants were representatives of various segments of the School Board school, who are teachers, management team, staff, parents, students, representative of CPM and representative of the local community, totalizing ten people. For the theoretical basis of this study, the main sources used were: Libâneo (1986, 2004), Paro (2003), Werle (2003), Navarro (2004), among others. We can see from the data analysis, a small step was the creation of the School Board as a tool for building democratic management, however, there was the need to break with a culture of centralizing power in the institution investigated. Therefore, it is concluded that the implementation of the municipal school board this school, you still need to improve the performance of their duties.