Da indicação à eleição de gestores escolares em municípios alagoanos: ares de ruptura ou de permanências?

Abstract

This dissertation is on an analysis of Alagoas management schools who choose the manager through election or partisan political statement, with the time frame the period between the years 2011 to 2015. The main objective was to analyze whether or no significant changes and differences in public schools in Alagoas who perform election of directors when compared to with partisan political statement. This work adopted as a theoretical and methodological approach to qualitative approach, emphasizing the literature review, observation, semi-structured interviews and focus groups as collection instruments; Data analysis used the Bardin Content Analysis (2011), with the analytical categories Power Relations, Participation and Democracy. The study subjects were a representative of each school segment: managers, staff, students, parents, coordinators and teachers of each school surveyed, totaling 36 subjects, six in each field of study. The theoretical framework of the Bobbio studies (1988 and 1986), Cruz Neto (2013 and 2014), Foucault (2009 and 1979), Lück (2005 and 2007), Mendonça (2001), Paro (2003), Neves (2005) Verçosa (2006) among others. The results showed that both schools with indication as to the election there is a need for further strengthening of democratic management mechanisms, as yet, in different degrees, there are party political interference in the management of schools.