Banca de DEFESA: MARCELO RAMOS DOS SANTOS

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STUDENT : MARCELO RAMOS DOS SANTOS
DATE: 28/02/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Instituto Multidisciplinar
TITLE:

CONTRADICTIONS IN THE CHOICE OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS: a comparative study between two schools in the Municipal Education Network of Duque de Caxias (RJ). 

KEY WORDS:

 

School Management; Democratic management; School Elections; Election of School Director.

PAGES: 160
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Administração Educacional
SPECIALTY: Administração de Unidades Educativas
SUMMARY:

Once the principle of the democratic rule of law was rescued by the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988, in overcoming the anti-democratic principles of the Civil-Military Dictatorial Regime established by the 1964 coup d'état, the field of education also advanced in the process of democratization, by instituting the principle of Democratic management. This was a milestone in valuing local power and expanding social control over educational decisions in the public sphere. If, on the one hand, it is a fact that these democratic advances granted municipalities relative autonomy for the formulation and regulation of their educational policies, on the other hand, they embodied the offensive of the ruling class to reorient public administration according to the principles of “New Public Management”, a fundamental strategy of the neoliberal project to reorient the relationship between the State and society. Thus, the idea of democratic management began to be re-signified according to managerialist standards. While for education workers, democratic management was related to the autonomy of the school community to define the directions of its political-pedagogical project and its school management strategies, for the ruling class guided by the ideals of “New Public Management”, democratic management it was related to the depoliticization of politics in the school environment through the institution of accountability strategies and a managerialist organizational culture, guided by mercantile logic. Faced with this reality, we elected as an object of analysis the process of choosing school directors in the Municipal Education Network of Duque de Caxias/RJ (RMEDC). Our objective is to analyze the contradictions of the implementation process of consultation with the school community for the choice of directors of schools in this teaching network in the period from 2015 to 2019. This is basic research, of qualitative analysis, of explanatory nature, which is falls into the category of a survey, although it uses analysis of primary and secondary sources and participant observation, whose theoretical and methodological reference is historical-dialectical materialism. From the analysis of the data, we realized that the implementation of the public consultation to the community to choose schools directors of the RMEDC, in the period from 2015 to 2019, did not materialize as a materiality of democratic management, since this process did not overcome the state guardianship. We also found that the discourse of democratic management was incorporated into the “New Public Management” implementation strategies, which gave new meaning to the concepts of decentralization, autonomy, and participation, in order to reorient the actions of school principals. We conclude that the reaction of the school community to the changes promoted in the process of choosing school directors at RMEDC was limited to the field of accommodation and adaptation in the face of the contradictions experienced in school management, in a daily life marked by the scarcity of human and material resources, by managerial strategies ruling class to rationalize the use of public funds in education.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1528893 - JOSE DOS SANTOS SOUZA
Interno - 2111255 - RODRIGO COUTINHO ANDRADE
Externa à Instituição - VERA LÚCIA JACOB CHAVES