Gestão democrática participativa: um estudo de caso realizado em uma escola pública municipal situada na periferia de Fortaleza - Ceará, realizado

Abstract

This monograph has, as thematic axle, the process of management in the construction of a democratic school citizen. Consisting in a study of case carried through in the public school in Fortaleza-Ceará, it has, as objective, to identify how the management is subsidizing the concretion of a participative democratic school citizen and, systematically, contributing for the process of education and learning; everything under the light of an educational paradigm that searchs the construction of a school that uses the new techniques of an efficient administration, with a new vision of school and community. Twenty two educators had participated of the research - fifteen teachers and eight employees - that they had constituted the first group; the second group was composed by twenty eight pupils of the EJA and 9º. year; the third group was formed by twenty six parents of pupils, having totalized seventy six respondents of the three turns. It was looked not to lose the general referencial with other sources, being searched some models of quality in the education, through theoretical referencial of authors who bring a good basement about the subject in guideline. The methodology applied to the research was characterized by two aspects: bibliographical and case study, in a qualitative perspective. For the collection of data, three questionnaires had been answered: one for the pupils, another one for the educators and another one for the parents of pupils, about the democratic management in the searched school. The main hypothesis was that the respondents would demonstrate that they consider the management of the school as of great importance in the democratization process. It was verified, by means of the data gotten in the research, that, although the difficult moment lived in the school on because of the increasing strikes, the management of the school usufructs of a good credibility in front of the interviewed ones; however, about the aspects of democratization of the school, still it has item that cause many doubts in the interviewed ones: the majority do not knows the subject of the inclusion of a democratic school citizen and the answers had been contradictory, vacant. Although the acceptance of the management, attitudes still needs to be made for the attainment of a democratic school citizen. It is distinguished that some factors had affected this conclusion, being distinguished the strike of the professors and the absence of public politics that value an education of quality in the searched school.