GESTÃO DA ESCOLA PÚBLICA NO SISTEMA MUNICIPAL DE ENSINO DE GOIANÉSIA-GO.

Abstract

The theme of democratic school management, the subject of this dissertation has been debated by several scholars in the educational field, who investigate the fundamentals, the dynamics and process of implementing of this model in educational systems and institutions. In this work, it is intended to grasp the following problem: which are the instituted and instituting concrete conditions in public schools in the City School System in Goianésia-GO, for the development of democratic school management? As the main aim, it is cited: to analyze the understanding of leaders about the concrete conditions existing in the public schools of the Municipal Education System (MES) in Goianésia-GO, in order to implement democratic management practices that favor the guarantee of the right to social quality education. Other goals were listed to support the achievement of the main objective, namely: a) to map the instruments which govern the management process undertaken in public schools of MES in Goianésia-GO; b) to recogne which space, time and the forms of participation provided to different segments in the decisions regarding the organization and functioning of the school, c) to identify conceptions of leadership with regard to the relationship between the practices of democratic school management and ensuring the right to education. Thus, with this work, it is intended to collaborate with the studies and debates about the systems and the teaching units of municipal school systems have instituted the process of democratic management. The method used was the historical dialectic materialism. It was adopted a qualitative approach to the analysis of official documents and the questionnaire with leaders of MES in Goianésia-GO, as instruments of data collection. The MES in Goianésia-GO develops initiatives facing the democratic management, since it is an ongoing process of gradual implementation of direct elections for choosing school leaders and the establishment of school boards. It is possible, however, to infer based on empirical research, that there is a long way for the consolidation of management practices in the system, considering that they remain in daily school organization, personalist, authoritarian and clientelistic practices that hinder critical and conscious participation of different segments that constitute the definition of its direction, to ensure the right to education of social quality for all.