Gestão escolar participativa: análises e desafios

Abstract

To understand the school management in the current days, known the legal bases and documents that deal the participative management in school makes it indispensable for educational institutions and especially to the school principals. The participation is the best means to implement the democracy, in the case of school management the community participation to take the decisions and monitoring of exactly what is on the table, moreover in the school routines of the involvement are so critical to the realization of democratic management. Therefore, this present study aims to identify the way to go by the manager and the school community for executing the participatory management and the challenges that can be founded. It also sought to identify the mechanisms of participation that must be present in school for the occurrence of a democratic management and reflect on the participatory management process and its implications in planning and school organization. To meet the proposed objectives, it was used as a methodological research bibliographic, based on different authors, which address issues related to education, democratic and participatory management, among others. The survey revealed that despite challenges such as lack of awareness of the school community as their right and duty to participate in management in all its stages and even their power of influence, participatory school management is the best way to manage school in a democratic manner, involving all members of the school community both in decision making and in the monitoring and implementation of what has been proposed, contributing to the formation of autonomous learners, critical and active in society. Among the investigated participation mechanisms that are present at school to highlight the school boards.