Desafios e tensões na elaboração de um PDI como instrumento democrático e democratizante

Abstract

This work intended to show how was the process of a construction of a institutional document called Development Institutional Plan known as PDI in a campus of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul. We have done an interview with the members of a commission built to this purpose to know what they think about this process in which they were inserted and what they think about democratic management .We based our work in the concept of participation democracy and in the believe of how this kind of society intervention in the state, make the individuals citizens and aware agents of their responsibilities and duties towards society. We finally understood that democracy, as a social mechanism always must be cultivated and supported and although of its deviating path is the school as the core of the formation of individuals that can and should provide this experience.