Discursos de gestoras dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental sobre a gestão democrática no cotidiano escolar

Abstract

The studies that outlined this investigation aim to inquire about democratic management and the role of the manager in education. Democratic management is a constitutional principle that must be observed. Democratic management is understood as the participation of the entire school community in decision-making, that is, its full participation in the school. The objective of democratic management is to create quality and universal education possibilities for all. For this, the school manager must assume his functions so that the democratic management is effective in the school routine. In this research, the theoretical framework was supported by authors such as Paro (2016), Lück (2009), Cury (2002), Orlandi (2009), as the main authors. It was necessary to count with the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of 1988, Law n.º 9394/96 of Guidelines and Bases of the National Education for the understanding of the democratic management before its legal framework. This investigation has a qualitative approach, as it seeks to understand the discourses of leaders on democratic management. For data collection, data were collected through initial semi-structured interviews, a set of thematic meetings mediated by technologies and another final semi-structured interview. For the analysis of the collected speeches, it was based on the discourse analysis of Orlandi (2009). The technological educational process entitled “The Democratic Management in question: meetings with directors of the Early Years of Elementary Education”, was characterized as a continuing education, which aimed to enable managers to understand democratic management. Then, weekly thematic meetings were held with the directors to discuss democratic management and its forms of effectiveness. As a result, this research reached all the proposed objectives, being possible to corroborate or refute the hypotheses considered. Thus, the contribution of this research to the participants was to present concepts about democratic management and its effectiveness. This research also wants to contribute to all educators, students who want to understand democratic management and the school director.