Gestão escolar democrática: deslocamentos de sentidos nas políticas públicas do município de Santa Maria - RS

Abstract

This study discusses the democratic management consecration as a way of management assumed by public school system since 1997 in Santa Maria city and its meaning effects on school organization and teachers’ work, analyzing how the paradoxical nature of democracy term influences the development of policies to this city. Furthermore, it discusses on implications of educational reforms – which have been developed based on neoliberal policies – and the changes that have occurred in the conceptions of school, education and the teachers’ role in this process. In this way, we have the interest of developing an investigation on how this way of management have influenced on the organization of school organization in terms of a democratic proposal. In a process of looking for new meanings, it presents the necessity of teachers seeking ways to share the control on discursive rules and curricular structure, because we believe that the democratic management – as a rule of public school – should contribute to build counter-hegemonic spaces related to management processes of school and knowledge become radically democratic.