Gestão democrática: fragilidades e possibilidades

Abstract

This monograph focuses on the democratic management in the context of a public school, It has as objective to identify the characteristics of school management in a democratic perspective, through the commitment of the school community in the decisions of an administrative-educational school. Through qualitative research, it is through a case study, in a public school located in Cachoeira do Sul the search field. For both uses of documentary research and semi-structured instruments for data collection. It seeks to analyze as in public school management based on democratic principles set out by law and by decentralizing education policy by identifying possibilities, the limits and challenges the school community in this way of managing the school. The results found in the survey show that the spaces of school democratization appear as the formal mechanisms and bureaucratic with the task of fulfilling pre-established determinations. There are great limitations to the process of democratic management in schools among which continues to reaffirm the authority figure and centralizing the director of design and large distortion which are among the subjects that make up the school on the development of collective work. With based on the precepts of democracy often it seens as the agglomeration of people to endorse what has already done or to nominate representatives to take decisions on behalf of the collective. This work reflects on the participatory spaces in school management as well as understanding the function of school policy and the need for collective action of its segments in the search for a quality education based on the principles of democracy.