Desafios e propostas para a implementação de uma gestão democrática dos recursos financeiros em uma escola estadual do município de Pentecoste – CE

Abstract

This dissertation was developed on the Professional Master in Management and Evaluation of Education (PPGP), of the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation at the Juiz de Fora Federal University (CAEd / UFJF). The case study of this dissertation reaches the management of financial resources received at the Tabelião José Ribeiro Guimarães High School in Integral Time, in Pentecoste, Ceará. It reaches the period from 2013 to 2017. The Federal Constitution of 1988 established the principle of democratic management, and it should be adopted as a parameter in the three main dimensions of school management: administrative, financial and pedagogical. Without ignoring the inseparability between these three dimensions, we opted for this research by analyzing the financial dimension. The central question of research was: How to make democratic management of the financial resources of EEMTI Tabelião José Ribeiro Guimarães in Pentecoste – Ce. To answer this question was constituted the general objective of this dissertation: discuss how to democratize the financial management at the EEMTI Tabelião José Ribeiro Guimarães. The following specific objectives guided the development of the research: describe how the financial resources are managed; analyze how school management and collegiate bodies have played their role and propose actions to overcome the challenges in financial management. The following methodological procedure was adopted: a) documentary analysis of legislation and literature in the area, through the authors: Adrião e Oliveira (2007), Araújo (2009), Avritzer (2007), Barroso (1996), Ghanem (2004), Libâneo (2008), Luck (2000), Oliveira (2014), Oliveira (2015); Navarro (2004), Peroni (2008), Ramos (2014) e Souza (2017) ; b) interviews with an administrative and financial advisor and with the managers of the school and c) the application of a questionnaire for a sample of members of the school community, highlighted here: teachers, employees, parents / guardians and students. For the analysis of the collected data, four characteristics of democratic school management were taken as reference: 1) access to information and transparency; 2) participation; 3) autonomy and 4) existence and functioning of collegiate bodies. The study showed the need for a greater democratization of the management acts in the financial dimension of the school. That way, in the educational plan – PAE, proposals were developed for empowerement actions of the performance of collegiate bodies and also to call, recognize and training to broaden community participation in the management of school financial resources.