Gestão democrática e a participação representativa dos discentes no conselho universitário de uma universidade pública de Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the participation of students in management and decision making in the University Council (COUNI), academic / administrative decision- making body, the Public University in question, from document analysis that shows and describes such activity, and also demonstrate the spaces provided in the rules and laws are actually being occupied and utilized by students within the institution. The methodological procedures followed in this study were anchored in the draft document research based on the analysis of documents considered important for the study of the basement (like meeting minutes, for example). The work is presented in three chapters in order to weave contributions to the guiding question object of this research, which is to describe and analyze whether there is in fact the effective participation of students in the academic / administrative management as preach normative documents based on the principles of democratic management, contained in the Federal Constitution, Law of Directives and Bases of National Education (LDB), Regiments and other rules of the institution studied. Thus, it has as a result of research that the participation of the student community in the academic / administrative management of the university in the period studied was less than ideal, since only about a third of the seats allocated to student representatives were busy in meetings the Board.