Gestão escolar e a questão do planejamento coletivo: um olhar para a realidade

Abstract

This conclusion of course work in educational administration specialization presents and analyzes results of a survey conducted in one School District elementary schools, the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The study was developed through the following problematic: Does the organization of the management team in the District school, located in the City Urban, support the principles of democratic management? To deepen the analysis of this question it was chosen two tools of democratic management brought by the literature: the collective construction of political-pedagogic Project and the participation of the governing bodies in the management team. The overall objective of the study was to investigate how the management team of the chosen school organizer it self about the practice of democratic management. The theoretical study was based on BARBOSA (1999), VEIGA (2002), Lebanon (2003), Perrenoud (2005), ).The methodology used was within a qualitative approach in education, (LUDKE e ANDRÉ, 1986; BOGDAN e TAYLOR, 1986), which refers to the full involvement of the researcher in the field of action, taking as a method the case study. Was interviewed the management team of the school. For data collection, the documents analysis, the questionaire application, complementary interviews and the participate observation. The main results of the study indicate a need for theory and practice run together, referring to the democratic management, as there is understanding of the importance of involving all actors in the school process, existing through the collegiate bodies the institution, to obtain the objectives proposed by the school unit, with the purpose of a quality education. It follows that in the investigated school, there are some obstacles that create opportunities for participation.