Limites e desafios da gestão democrática na escola pública: um estudo a partir do sertão alagoano

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the reasons which three schools of the 6th Regional Coordination of Education belonging to the State Secretariat for Alagoas Education to spend the teachers indication for the provision of school manager function within an implanted democratic management process the state public school system since 1999. The time frame in which it based the research was the election for school manager in 2013, ie the last process for school manager of election in the state of Alagoas. The thesis makes a survey of election in the state system during this period to see if the phenomenon of statement was spot just in the schools of Alagoas hinterland or had repercussions at state level. The survey also sought through the subjects' discourse the motives for the withdrawal of teachers, segment fit the law, not to apply for school manager function, leading schools to go through the nomination process. It used the qualitative quantitative method with semi-structured interviews as a data collection tool and using the theoretical framework of the French current discourse analysis whose founder Pêcheux for analysis and processing of data. Based on the understanding that the democratic management is a process of conscious participation of the subjects to which democracy is actually exercised in the school environment, the dissertation sought in several authors as Paro (2001; 2003; 2005; 2007); Gold (1990; 1998); Time (1994); Lück (2005; 2010); Araújo (2007), Cruz Neto (2013; 2014), Silva Junior (2002), Neves (2005), Bordignon and Gracindo (2006) among others, contextualize the democratic management within the country's democratization process and point out elements for understanding the phenomenon of indication what.