Gestão democrática escolar no sistema municipal de educação de Canaã dos Carajás, Pará (1997-2021)

Abstract

This text is the result of a dissertation research linked to the research line of specific curricula of the phases and modalities of professional education of the Professional Postgraduate Program on Education from the Federal University of Tocantins (PPPGE/UFT), which had as its study object the process of institutionalization of the democratic school administration at the Municipal System of Education of Canaã dos Carajás (Pará), on the period between 1997 and 2021, with the goal of implementing the democratic administration of public municipal schools of the present federative entity? The general objective is to analyze from a legal and normative perspective the process of institutionalization of the principle of democratic school administration at the Municipal System of Education of Canaã dos Carajás (Pará). The specific objectives are to comprehend theoretically the conceptions that guide the process of institutionalization of the principle of democratic administration on public education; to know the main educational legislation the regulates the principle of democratic administration on Brazilian public school system, as well as the formal mechanisms to its materialization; to describe the process of legal and normative construction of democratic school administration at the Municipal System of Education of Canaã dos Carajás (Pará), within the period between 1997 and 2021; and to elaborate, as an educational product, an explanatory guide concerning the theoretical and normative principles that guide the construction the democratic school administration. In regard to the theoretical-methodological references adopted, we opted for a qualitative approach, whose procedure of study is bibliographical and documental research, of applied nature. For the process of analysis of the information, the research was based on the Analysis of Content (BARDIN, 2011). In what concerns the study object, the results pointed out to advancements, regressions and challenges, from a legal and normative point of view of the process of effectuation of the democratic school administration on the Municipal System of Education of Canaã dos Carajás (Pará). At last, we presented, as an educational product, the explanatory guide called Democratic administration: knowing to value, destined preferably to the school managers, in which the importance of democratic school administration was a highlight.