Contribuições da gestão democrática para a (s) infância (s)

Abstract

This research brings the approach of some different looks about childhood in contemporary, industrial and traditional societies. It is considered in this study that the childhood concepts are in constant transformation, and that in the contemporary, the child, the social actor of the childhood generational category, has an own understanding of the world and things. The child produces, reproduces and transforms society through her culture, so she should be considered a potential human. The research points to ways that in fact the child can be respected and valued for her own way of understanding, thinking and expressing herself. The effective democratic management of the school through autonomy, participation and all responsibility is an essential component to allow it. It is looked for the construction of a new participation culture in schools from childhood in the sense of the school democratization experience to enlarge and extend it to different areas of power relations existing in society.