THE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT PROCESSES OF THE DUQUE DE CAXIAS CITY: AN ANALYSIS ON YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION.
Youth and Adult Education; school management; participation.
The democratic management has the potential to exercises an emancipatory formation in
which learners, educators and school comunity, by take over the decision locations, act like
political struggle protagonists in public school defense and against the authoritarian practices
that still remain. Moreover, the participation through collegiate instances, as School Counsil,
the collective (re)elaboration of Political Pedagogical Project and the School Principal
election process, potentially, constitute resistence movements within the schools aiming a
social intervention in social reality. The present research adresses the school management
thematic and their reverberations in Youth and Adult Education in relation to learners
participation, motivated by the following questions: The student participation has effectively
given? If it has given, how was it? The research has as main objective analyze the Youth and
Adult Education learners collective participation in the school management processes in the
public education network of Duque de Caxias Municipality in the School Principal postelection
context and their possible technical administrative/politic pedagogical implications.
Documental research has conducted in thtee stages: First, it constituted in the Duque de
Caxias Education Bureau implementing team produced reports analysis, to identify between
the network schools that offered the modality the ones who owned the Youth and Adult
Education students in democratic practices of school, management; in the second stage, it was
conducted Political Pedagogic Project analysis to find out how the modality is portrayed and
to select schools which took place in the next stage; and the third stage refocused to the
selected school units resumption in the preview stage. To data systematization, it draw on the
Matter Analysis (Bardin, 1977). As main researches results, it turned out there was lack of
academy production on the School Management and Youth and Adult Education related to the
local level, school level. Related to the researched schools Political Pedagogic Project, it was
noted the lack of information about the elaboration and/or updating process development of
them on the collective participation from the several school segments on this construction.
Now related to the analysed reports, it could be verified that the schools announced the Youth
and Adult Education students participation in diferente ways, as School Counsil, Student
Union, class nomination, class counsil, municipal Fund for Maintenance and Development of
Basic Education and Valorization of Education Professionals counsil, meeting among
Pedagogic Guidance and Assemblies, besides the Political Pegagogic Project update, which
indicates that Youth and Adult Education learners took place in School Management
democratic practices.