Democratizando a gestão escolar, eleição direta para diretor

Abstract

The main objective of the present research was to understand the extent to which direct election to director contributes to a more democratic management and to a better reorganization and restructuring of the educational system, analyzing the difficulties faced by the director in the face of the scarcity of resources and, above all, investigating the causes of the authoritarianism existing in the school units, which comes mainly from an educational system incapable of providing the necessary structure for its proper functioning. In order to make possible the research results of a descriptive-exploratory nature, a questionnaire with questions directly related to the democratic management of public schools was used as data collection method, analyzing the means by which the school director is chosen, their implications for the progress of the unit, and consequently the impact on the learning process of learners. Finally, through all the work accomplished, it was possible to verify that it is urgent and necessary, in these new times, regardless of the type of choice of the school director and other educational leaders, to democratize the educational management starting with our schools, since we can not expect satisfactory results coming from public power and / or from other spheres of society.