A Gestão democrática em cena: uma análise da rede municipal de Nova Andradina (MS)

Abstract

This Master's Dissertation in Education was built within the scope of the actions developed by the State, Politics and Management Education and Research Group (Gepge), linked to the Postgraduate Program in Education of the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Grande Dourados (PPGEdu / Faed / UFGD). It is linked to national research, funded by the Carlos Chagas Foundation (FCC), entitled “Municipal School Management Scenarios in Brazil”, which outlined the concepts and methodology employed. The general objective is to analyze the educational management scenario in the Municipal Network of Nova Andradina (MS), with a view to explaining its potential in printing actions of a democratizing aspect to elementary education. The criterion for choosing this municipality as the empirical locus of the research considered the positive results of the Basic Education Development Index (Ideb). It is hypothesized that networks that seek to print quality, even indicated in good results at Ideb, have the potential to implement measures of a democratizing nature. The guiding problem of the investigation is: what are the characteristics of the educational management of Nova Andradina from the Brazilian scenario? The adopted methodology was organized in three phases, the first being the bibliographic review; the second, document analysis, based on documents from the Municipal Education Department; and the third phase consists of field research, with interviews and application of group interaction techniques to school principals. As a result, it was noticed that the Nova Andradina scene points to advances in the management of democratizing aspects, made concrete through measures that make explicit the effort to build an environment closer to the conceptions of democratic management present in the normative documents of national education. In this sense, there are influences of national policies in the municipal context that induce a given conception of democratic management. In this context, measures that aim for quality are intertwined, through meeting the Ideb goals of a managerial nuance, and actions aimed at qualifying basic education with a democratizing aspect, such as the adoption of an election for directors and the adoption of a career plan. based on the national wage floor. As they are recent measures, the need to expand studies is indicated, observing the realization of new scenarios that may develop from scenes that are built in the dynamics of political relations.