A gestão escolar democrática e o princípio de valorização e reconhecimento do trabalho do professor

Abstract

This work arises intending to broaden the reflections about the relation of the school management and the teachers valuing. For that, it started from the following question: how a democratic school management can influence the recognition and teacher’s valuing in the public school? The general goal intended to: investigate the democratic management influence in the recognition and valuing of the teacher's work and, as specific goals, sought to deepen studies on democratic management in the school context and to analyze the ways in which the management team establishes so that teachers, staff and parents feel the importance of their participation in the growth of the school and their children. The study was carried out based on references from the area such as Libâneo, Oliveira and Toschi (2007) Lück (2009; 2011), among others, and was attended by managers of a municipal school in Santa Maria city/RS, through a questionnaire addressed to the management team and the coordinators of Early Childhood Education and Initial Years. With this study, it was verified how the day-to-day management team is able to implement a democratic management regarding the appreciation of teachers, listening to them in their anguish in the sense of the growth of student learning. It was understood that by bringing the community into the school, especially in the events organized in pedagogic meetings, to value the initiatives of the teachers and other actions that help in the development of a high-level education, the managers demonstrated their understanding on the importance of a democratic school management and its recognition of teachers' work.