Análise do modelo e práticas de gestão de escolas públicas municipais de Benjamin Constant-AM: desafios e possibilidades à efetivação da gestão democrático-participativa na escola

Abstract

This monograph entitled Analysis of the model and management practices of municipal public schools by Benjamin Constant-AM: challenges and possibilities for implementing democratic participatory management in schools, addresses one of the areas of training and research of academics on the Pedagogy course: educational management. The objective of the study was to analyze the school management model of municipal public institutions in the urban area of Benjamin Constant-Am, emphasizing the advances and challenges to implementing participatory democracy at school. Understanding how school management is being processed is of great importance for the future graduate of the course, which has management as one of the fields of its professional activity and which must strive for the implementation and real implementation of participatory democracy at school. In this sense, we directed the studies to two municipal public schools in Benjamin Constant located in the urban area of the municipality, which made it possible to study school management in this context in more depth, through observations, interviews and analysis of documents from the researched institutions. The study was configured as a field research with a qualitative approach and a critical-dialectic approach. With this work we present the management practices developed and the predominant management model or conception in municipal public schools, having as theoretical contribution Libâneo (2018), Luck (2014), Dourado (2013), among other authors and Brazilian educational legislation that promote the principle of democratic management in schools. The idea was to contribute to studies that highlight the real constraints of the existing management model and its implications for improving the quality of education in municipal public schools in the urban area of Benjamin Constant-AM. With the research it was found that there had been advances, such as the selection of managers, but democracy is not effective in practice, whether due to the lack of autonomy in schools, little participation in decision-making and (re)construction of the PPP or due to the non-fulfillment of democratic collegiate bodies such as the School Council. It is concluded, then, that there are many challenges that make it impossible to implement democratic/participatory management in the schools researched, as there is much talk about democratization, but little is still being done about democracy in schools.