Gestão democrática e escola cidadã

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the limits and possibilities of democratic school management triggers to improve the quality of education in a Citizen School. The research was characterized as exploratory qualitative, in which a director and four teachers from a school of the school city of Constantina (RS) responded to semistructured interviews. These were transcribed and analyzed approaching the content analysis. The proposed Public School was considered a major breakthrough for improving the quality of education, because it is an innovative proposal and challenging for both managers, teachers, students and the general community, and brings the approach and the participation of the surroundings. Therefore, understanding of citizenship part of a right of every human being has, and he must be able and aware of their rights to exercise their citizenship conditional upon the power to participate in society on the insertion in social practices involving their school learning as democratic formation.