A gestão nas escolas públicas municipais de Boa Vista/RR: possibilidades e desafios para uma educação democrática.

Abstract

The school view as educative, social institution must excel at forming citizens to take part in society consciously, contributing to make a fairer world and regaining the credibility of the public education. In this context, the democratic management in education becomes the core of educational policies preconized by the Federal Constitution in 1988, corroborated by Law 9396/96. At this, one thought of fulfilling this paper which brings a study upon the educational management experienced in municipal public schools in Boa Vista City, the State of Roraima, trying to identify the challenges and possibilities for the practice of a democratic management as well as considering the social, political, economical and cultural reality of the people involved. The fulfillment of semistructured interviews, the systematic observation and the informal talks were the tools of data collection to be analyzed in this study. It is about a qualitative research of critical-analytical character orientated by the theoretical principles of the historical-critical method. The concepts of democracy, participation, autonomy and politics were categories that stimulated the analyses of the data in this study by preponderating people‟s relationship with the real concrete, constructed historically. Such relationship imposes how important it is to comprehend the educational policies based on the administrative decentralization and the effective participation of the professionals of education and community, trying to reach new ways for the formation of more democratic mentalities. The theoretical considerations, which explain the influence of the educational management upon the background of more critical and participative people and the data analyses collected in the research, demonstrated that there is still a rather considerable distance between the expectations of the democratic space and the effective construction of this space in the universe researched. Rethinking, thus, the educational management brings the community insertion prerogative in the school decision-making just like the crucial for the formation of the group.