Desafios e perspectivas da gestão escolar: um estudo em escolas municipais de São Martinho/RS

Abstract

This study aims to know the main challenges and perspectives of managers / directors of municipal public schools of São Martinho / RS, for the participatory construction of school management. Specifically, it seeks to know the management conception that guides the work developed, to reflect on the role of the manager / director in the schools under study and to analyze the challenges and perspectives of school management. The research has a qualitative approach, characterized as a descriptive case study. As an instrument of data collection, an open, semi-structured questionnaire was used, answered by the managers of the two schools participating in the study. From the collected data, it can be verified that the participation of the community is fundamental to realize the democratic paths that increase the quality of education. However, there were several obstacles to democratic management in the schools surveyed, such as a lack of executive elections, full participation of the community in the construction of the Pedagogical Project, active participation of parents in school decisions and actions, lack of autonomy among others. The main challenges highlighted by the managers are the lack of human and financial resources, as well as the difficulty of counting on the participation of the community in the school. Despite the challenges encountered and the fact that school management still does not follow a democratic practice in schools, the managers still have possibilities that can be used as input for the construction of participative management and is something that is being built little by little, through mechanisms of participation, such as the creation of school councils, student associations, among others. Thus, it is concluded that in the schools studied there is a need to overcome authoritarian practices, aiming at the consolidation of a new management model.