Desafios e possibilidades da Gestão Participativa em escolas privadas de Ensino Básico

Abstract

The school, as a basic unit and space for the achievement of objectives and goals of the education system, is nowadays the center of society's attention, being of great strategic value for the country's development. Such a situation becomes a major challenge, with special efforts for school principals, requiring attention, knowledge, skills and attitudes that result in the need for participatory and fair decision-making skills. This research focuses on the study of the participatory management model in private primary education, analyzing its challenges and its possibilities. It was developed with the following objectives: to analyze the profile of the principals of the researched schools, in their work environment; reflect on the role of the school principal in the current educational, economic, social and political context; identify the challenges and possibilities of the school principal's work activity for the construction of participatory management in a private network; and, based on this information, propose the creation of a partipatory online forum. In theoretical terms, it was necessary to study the different organizational proposals, the practices of educational management and the concepts that differentiate democratic management from participatory management. The main authors who contributed as theoretical bases for research are: Lück, Costa, Ellström and Lima. This is a case study involving three private schools, identified as schools A, B and C. The data were analyzed and treated as a collective and not individually, although the researcher considers that each school is unique in its cultural and social context. The following methodological procedures were used: interview, with the principals of the schools; questionnaire applied via Google Drive with elementary and high school teachers; document Analysis; and observations, recorded in logbook. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, and pointed out that the network under study has traces of the use of participatory management in its organization; however, it is still necessary to deepen its procedures in relation to this way of gestating. The following methodological procedures were used: interview, with the principals of the schools; questionnaire applied via Google Drive with elementary and high school teachers; document Analysis; and observations, recorded in logbook. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, and pointed out that the network under study has traces of the use of participatory management in its organization; however, it is still necessary to deepen its procedures in relation to this way of gestating. In short, in order to further strengthen this participatory vision in this private education network, a more attentive look on the part of school principals is needed to help institutions move away from actions that hinder the participation process.