Gestão democrática escolar: um estudo de caso na Escola Estadual Aristófanes Fernandes/RN

Abstract

The theme developed in this article shows that the Brazilian education goes through a process of breaking with old paradigms, especially in relation to the administration of our schools. The Educational Democratic Management emerges as a viable management model for Brazilian education and is in the implementation process in our schools. The study was developed in the State School Aristófanes Fernandes, located at Rua Padre João Teotonio, Santana do Matos, Rio Grande do Norte. This school was the subject of a work for two months, where the educational management of the institution was studied by analyzing the process of democratization, participation of the school community, school autonomy, its management and the school board. In order to investigate the model of the Democratic Management in the State School Aristófanes Fernandes for the realization of their progress and problems of this type of management. To develop this work, research strategies were implemented as: questionnaires, interviews, survey of publications and analysis of these records. The Democratic Management is an irreversible model for this new moment of Brazilian education. Came to solve the problems of the educational system, but the State School Aristófanes Fernandes is a dichotomy between theory and practice, management is not truly democratic, being thus in a building process.