Gestão democrática da educação: em busca do padrão de qualidade nas escolas estaduais de Constantina/RS

Abstract

This study examines the management processes of the state schools located in the city of Constantine / RS. The methodological approach is aligned to a qualitative and quantitative research, when analyzing different elements exposed by the school community through a semi-structured questionnaire in order to verify this as the democratization of management in the schools surveyed and investigated in accordance with the conceptions of school community, the difficulties to conduct this process. It is known that exercise democratic management in education systems and schools ensure progressive degrees of autonomy of school units. So the democratic management is done in the exercise of citizenship from parents, students, teachers, and also to entities or persons representing the whole community. However, this research also highlights that a democratic process involves in addition to rights, too many obligations, not only of management teams, but also the entire school community, therefore, democratic management requires that the school is managed by all those who are exposing too, which organizations facilitate this process and its goals. This research is divided into three chapters, specifically two of pointing a literature review and the methodology used and the results obtained in the survey, which indicated that the schools studied are on the way to the democratization of school management, requiring only some adjustments by both the management team as part of the other members of the school community.