Gestão escolar: limites e possibilidades para a cooperação entre os pares

Abstract

The present paper has as its theme the School Management: Limits and possibilities for cooperation among peers, bringing definitions, and Democratic Management as one of the possibilities. Survey participants are teachers and principals from municipal urban elementary schools in the county of Sobradinho - RS, which were interviewed between August and September of 2013. To answer the problem of "How the forms of management practiced in elementary schools enable and/or limit the cooperation among peers," we used the literature, qualitative and case study research. Through this study it was concluded that the thinking of a participatory democratic management, to counter pose the individual management, seeking school autonomy does not happen in the reality of schools surveyed, because the lack of time and space makes the cooperation and interaction among peers become illusory and increasingly distant due to the limitations and changes during the school year. Possibilities are pointed up to change that reality in the pursuit of improvement in human relations, quality of teaching and the so dreamed Democratic Management.