Os colegiados escolares e o discurso da gestão democrática: a situação da participação em uma escola estadual de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The present dissertation was developed under the Professional Master in Management and Evaluation of Education of the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The management case has the objective of analyzing possible factors that make it difficult for the school community to participate in decisions in a state school in Minas Gerais, especially when we analyze their school collegiate and reflect why a shared decision-making body is not always collaborating to articulate a participative management. We first describe the scenario and the functioning of the Collegiate School of the Nuvem Branca State School, referring to its characterization in the macro context of the collegiate bodies based on the principle of democratic management of the Federal Constitution of 1988, in the establishment of democratic management in the Law 1996, and in the National Education Plan of 2001/2014, as well as in other mining legal frameworks, such as Law nº 7,109 of October 31, 1977, Decree nº. 41.271 of September 27, 2000 The situation of participation and its relation to the management of Nuvem Branca State School was explored through questionnaires applied, and examined with the focus on the general mining context and what the legislation regulates on the democratic management and the functioning of school collegiate. Through qualitative research, we collected documentary data (records of meetings, school records), bibliographic studies and field research. Our methodology analyzes the performance of members of this Collegiate and their perceptions regarding school management, within the perspective that their actions and / or absences are impacting on school relations as promotion of participation and democratic management of the Nuvem Branca State School. We support such authors as Paro (1992, 2008a, 2008b) regarding their approach to democracy in the public school, Dallari (1984) in their concepts of participation, mobilization and politics and Luck (2000); effects of school management on actions that reflect an ideal democracy. Thus, we understand that the analysis of the reality of the social actors from their context, their perspectives and their speech has offered us elements to affirm that the community does not act in a mobilizing and effective way in the sharing of the decisions that involve the school dynamics as a whole.We developed an analysis from the perspective of democratic management with participation and social mobilization and with this, we made a proposal of action, according to the tool 5W2H. In it we seek to plan the work directed to the monitoring of the actions of the School Collegiate and the other meetings that involve the school community. The goal of this action plan is to form a reconfiguration of these meetings in which the participants have the opportunity to know more channels of knowledge of this collegiate body and the possibility of qualifying their actions aimed at a collective performance that promotes improvements in the educational and participative process of the institution.