Gestão escolar democrática: o que diz a pesquisa sobre este tema?

Abstract

This article reports a study that aimed to produce an overview of research carried out in the field of School Management and disseminated at EDUCERE, from 2008 to 2019, with a view to contributing to the field of knowledge on the subject. It is an exploratory and descriptive research of the bibliographic type, called research on the “state of knowledge” (FERREIRA, 2002; ROMANOWSKI, ENS, 2006).Data were identified, systematized and analyzed according to Bardin (2016) content analysis technique. Data received qualitative treatment. Throughout the decade in focus, the research identified and analyzed 22 complete works, which had as a priority focus the Democratic School Management. The main data identified and analyzed were the following: institutional origin of the research, conceptions of school management that they analyze and characteristics of the democratic management process. It was identified that the geographic region with the highest volume of production on the subject was the South (81.82%) and the incidence of works falls naturally on the institution PUCPR, host of the event. The works mostly bring the concept of Democratization of Management and Autonomy (45.4%). And that the characteristics of democratic management processes prioritize the aspect of collective and participatory work. It is concluded that a democratic management aims to mobilize people in an articulated and collective way, with efficient performance at school with the purpose of transforming reality.