Gestão Democrática e Educação no campo: uma experiência no Município de Porto Grande, Amapá

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the democratic processes that guide the management of the Acre Municipal School, from the point of view of managers, teachers and counselors. Specifically, some objectives were outlined, such as: identifying the strategic management model adopted at Acre Municipal School; To verify if institutional indicators are being reached after the adoption of democratic management; To identify in the Political Pedagogical Project in organizational aspects that subsidize and define the structure of a democratic management model and to discuss with the subjects involved in the research, the mechanisms for the implementation of democratic management in the school in order to achieve the objectives, a research was carried out of a qualitative nature, in which interrogation techniques were applied from individual semi-structured questionnaires for managers, teachers and counselors. The data gathered show that the democratic processes that guide the management of the Acre Municipal School are based on deliberative procedures, although the verticalization of government decisions still constitutes a major obstacle to school and community decision making. Despite government decisions, institutional indicators have been reached since the adoption of democratic management, since school management through deliberative bodies such as the School Council, parents and teachers, public consultation and plenary sessions seeks to hear the Needs and to emphasize what the community is really considered to be a priority. We identified in the Political Educational Project the Class Council, meeting of parents and teachers, public consultation and plenary are the means that subsidize and define the structure of the democratic management model adopted by the Acre school. We conclude that the school Acre seeks to develop a model of democratic management, which despite the vertical regulations of the municipal executive, seeks ways to make decision-making an event for all. That the administrative and pedagogical team seek means for the management of the school to take place in a participatory and democratic manner. However, we believe that participatory school management requires deliberate autonomy in school.