As funções do diretor de escola há espaço para a dimensão política?

Abstract

This research considers the manager’s role represented by the directors’ figure, looking for a relation between the school and school community. This altercation is necessary because It is possible observe some authoritarian and anachronistic practices, directed only for school administrative and bureaucratic activities. Thus, the goal of this research is analyze, mainly, the director’s actions and understanding about democratic management, It aims integrate family and school searching for a qualitative teaching. This research asks for: the Parobé’s tow managers, who participate in this research, behave democratically at schools where they act like directors? What projects do they develop to motivate the school community participating at school activities? Then, contemplating this research’s goal and problem, It will be based in some authors like Oliveira (2010), Chiavenato (2003), Hora (2012), Andreoti (2010), Lück (1981), Libâneo (2004), Paro (2010), Drabach (2011). The research part of a questionnaire’s application with four managers, it contemplates questions about the subject of this essay. Then, considering authors studies and questionnaire analyze, understand that these managers recognize the democratic management enable more commitment from all people that are involved at educational process, search in then, schools’ projects that encompass all social issues making some committal with an effective and critical learning. However, in practice, the complex condition of different requests required for director, that he needs to solve, preclude, many times, a political dimension of this projects, it summarize his role for an administrative dimension, with a technical character.