Gestão participativa e democrática na EMEI Vila Jardim em Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

This paper presents a study and considerations of democratic management in school and the importance of school interaction with the community. The objective is to investigate the design of concepts of participation and democracy and their appropriation and implementation by the school community EMEI Garden Village, through a critical and reflective approach that aims to encourage and support further discussions on the topic. From the data of a survey conducted, we sought to understand the importance of school and democratic management in the construction of citizenship. It also investigated the question of commitment and its relation to the involvement of the school community and management. The dynamics of the process of participation and its construction collectively, reveal that face the traditional model requires a commitment of the whole school community. The process is hard because it requires the breaking of paradigms and detachment from vanity and individual wills, especially from the direction of the school, in favor of the will of the majority. Implement a democratic management model constitutes overcome many obstacles, but the liberating education and the construction of democratic values, make the school an instrument of social transformation.