TESES E DISSERTAÇÕES DA ÁREA DA EDUCAÇÃO SOBRE GESTÃO DEMOCRÁTICA (2012-2013): UM BALANÇO CRÍTICO

Abstract

The project that gave rise to this dissertation is linked to the Research Line "State, Policies and Educational Institutions of the Graduate Program in Education at PUC Goiás and it is articulated to the Research Group ―Educational Policies and School Management‖, CNPq, and to the ―Nucleus Educational Research‖ at PUC Goiás as well. The purpose of this study is school management. It results from a qualitative research, of theoretical character, in the state of art modality combined with content analysis. A critical review was carried out of the theses and dissertations defended in the period 2012-2013 in the Graduate Programs in Education recommended by the Commission for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes). Its main objective is to identify conceptions of educational management, as well as to investigate the process of democratic management in public educational institutions, based on the critical balance. The specific objectives are: to revise the literature regarding the conceptions of school management and democracy; to map and perform the critical assessment of the theses and dissertations defended in the Graduate Programs in Education, in the years of 2012-2013, and to organize their categories and content analysis in order to identify conceptions of school management. The research problem consists of the following question: What conceptions of school management are revealed by the analysis of theses and dissertations defended in the period of 2012-2013 in the Graduate Programs in Education? The theoretical framework contemplates the following axes: 1) conceptions of democracy and democratic school management, based on the ideas of: Paro (2000, 2010 and 2015); Brzezinski (2012); Sander (2007); Carvalho (2012); Ferreira (2006); Eisenstadt (2000); Coutinho (2002; 2008); Chauí (2000); Dallari (1984); Vieira and Farias (2011); 2) the organization of work: Pinto (2007); Coutinho (2002); 3) the state of knowledge and content analysis: Brzezinski (2006; 2014) and Franco (2005). For the definition of the sample, a survey of 11 theses and 44 dissertations was made available in the Capes portal and in the Postgraduate Education Programs data of the country that were defended in the years 2012-2013. The works were read for the elaboration of expanded abstracts based on the Latin American Educational Documentation Network (Reduc) model. Of the 11 theses and 44 dissertations systematized and organized in an analytical matrix the following categories of analysis emerged from: educational management or school administration; Identity of the manager and administrator; Characteristics of democratic management; School management and the results of standardized tests, and institutional organization, levels and stages of teaching and programs. The conclusion from the analysis of the 11 theses and 44 dissertations was that the school administration conceptions, managerialism and school management are present in the student production. However, there is a predominance of characteristics of managerial management that prioritize the achievement of goals set by the government and the results of institutional evaluations. It is evident that managerialism is the most practiced management model in Brazilian public education.