Eleições de diretores no Ceará: um processo de construção da gestão democrática, seus desafios e suas possibilidades

Abstract

This dissertation presents, as its main theme, the election process of school managers of state schools in Ceará. We aim to assess such policy from the perspective of the various actors who took part in the implementation of the manager elections, in its 2008/2009 version, at the 1st CREDE in Maracanaú, Ceará, and how they view the process of selection and election of principals, identifying challenges, advancements and opportunities of improvement, so as to subsidize, in the final section of the PAE the construction of a Plan of Intervention which may collaborate with the State Secretariat of Education in Ceará towards improving the process of providing positions of principals of the public state schools in Ceará. The choice of such object of study is justified by the fact that the researcher, as a regional manager, feels that there is the need to advance the process of democratization in school management. Therefore, the study adopted a bibliographic research, a review of legal documents and norm regarding the process of election of school managers and gathering of data by means of semi structured interviews and surveys applied to various actors of the process. The data analysis allowed for a dialogue with authors and studies conducted on the topic, especially Cury; Gadotti; Lück; Paro; Ramos and Vieira. The research pointed to a certain depletion of the model adopted to elect school managers, resulting from a variety of factors, having as its main challenges and limitations of the process the decrease in participation, the bureaucratization of the process and the reproducing of illicit political practices in the electoral process, which jeopardize the atmosphere and the school management and indicated as courses of action to its improvement the strengthening of collegiate; continued formation of school managers and the implementation of an assessment and certification of school managers who will guide the proposed Plan of Intervention.