A cultura política de participação do conselho escolar da Escola Municipal Professor Carlos Bello Moreno em Natal-RN

Abstract

Educational management needs to walk alongside the precepts of democratic management. Public school management is a challenge for everyone, it has to honor everyone involved in the education journey: teachers, employees, parents or guardians, students and the community. The object of this research is the political culture of participation of the School Council in the context of Democratic Management at the Professor Carlos Bello Moreno Municipal School in Natal-RN (2019-2021). Political culture is the sum of ideas that delineate political projects and these conceptions provide the articulation of the struggle for control of political power in various social institutions. Furthermore, political culture stimulates emotions, moral and ethical values and thus strengthens social traditions . Social institutions are spaces for the sociability of subjects, these relationships are established in the long term, such as within the family or in school institutions. It is precisely in these environments that the reproduction of political cultures takes place. Because these social institutions are where reproduction takes place, they are also where responses to social problems are manifested, thus becoming places of social development. It is therefore necessary that the political culture of school institutions is in line with the principles of democratic management, with the participation of members of the school community in the preparation of the school's pedagogical project and especially with the participation of the school community in the School Councils. Only through the implementation of democratic management principles will public schools satisfy the wishes of everyone involved in the learning process. This agenda was also reproduced in legal instruments of the most diverse natures: in the Federal Constitution/1988, in the Guidelines and Bases of National Education Law (LDB) no. 9394/96, in the National Education Plan - PNE, Law No. 13.005/2014, in the Municipal Complementary Law nº 147/2015 and in the Municipal Education Plan - PME Ordinary Law nº 6603/ 2016. The general objective of this research is to analyze the culture of political participation of the school council in the Professor Carlos Bello Moreno Municipal School, and has as specific objectives: to identify in the legislation pertaining to democratic management, especially Municipal Law No. 147/2015, which attributions, powers, prerogatives and delegations are attributed to the Council and the school counselor; and understand the political and cultural reasons for the actions of the School Council. To achieve these goals, we used conversational free interviews as a methodology and applied a questionnaire with members of the School Board and we studied the literature produced on Political Culture, Democratic Management, Political Participation and School Board, and analyzed the school's internal documents as: Political Pedagogical Project, School Board Regulation and School Board Meeting Minutes Book. Our research pointed out that in this school studied, democracy has been confirmed as a political action. The interviews, the questionnaire, the observations and documental analyzes carried out at the school reveal that the school management has really been structuring itself in a democratic way and indicate that the school council has a democratic political culture.