Gestão democrática: as representações sociais dos docentes do ensino fundamental da cidade de Coari/AM

Abstract

This study analyses the social representation of the Primary Teaching Democratic Management in public schools in Coari/AM. It aims at checking the existence or non-existence of the mediation of the democratic management principle in elaborating the political-pedagogic projects in these schools , getting to know the participation mechanisms on planning and school management present in these schools and identifying the teachers‟ social representations on democratic management. The theoretical basis of the research is supported by Serge Moscovici s Social Representations Theory . Structured questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, as well as the free association of words technique were its data basis. The participants were 102 primary teachers from seven State Schools from Coari/AM, each of them with a different profile. According to the study, this process has not happened in a satisfactory way yet, as it involves the school agents in all the steps. We also identified most schools do not have some of the main participation mechanisms for the democratic management such as School Councils, Student Unions, among others. The research demonstrates that most of the interviewed teachers are aware that participation is really an essential element for the process of implementation and building of democratic management in schools for there is no school model based on democracy which does not have the participation of all the school community, that is, everybody who takes part of the actions on processes which involve decisions related to the organization of the work developed by schools