Espaços e mecanismos de gestão democrática nos sistemas/redes municipais de ensino/educação tocantinenses na pandemia da Covid-19

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the issue of democratic management of municipal education in Tocantins, which has empirical basis at the Research of the Tocantins Collaboration Network. The general objective of the study is to analyze the mobilization of spaces and mechanisms of democratic management in the Municipal Teaching/Education Systems/Networks of Tocantins in the year 2020. The specific objectives outline the concepts and historical foundations of democracy and democratic management, their legal and operational implications, the institutionalization processes in Municipal Systems and the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on the municipal education. Based on the historical and dialectical materialist method, from reflections endowed with movement and contradiction, the study has as its sources the bibliographic review and empirical-documentary research. The bibliography studied points out that the spaces are characterized by the environment where democratic management takes place, while the mechanisms are the political instruments through which it can build and consolidate the management, the expansion of democracy and the critical consciousness for a possible social emancipation. The research results shows that the Municipal Teaching/Education Systems/Networks had, in general, to mobilize and to act in relation to public policies and the dynamics of social participation in decisions to resume classes in the period of the mentioned pandemic. Although some municipalities have created their Municipal Teaching/Education Systems, the formal mechanisms of democratic management have not materialized, and, as a result, they have lost their autonomy. The study concludes that the advances in relation to the participation in democratic spaces as a form of dialogue between the public power and the population are very limited, even in the capitalist context. However, the management of municipal education provides a channel for dialogue with society to consolidate the social and political role of citizens in the democratization process.