A gestão democrática escolar e a contribuição do movimento estudantil

Abstract

The present research has the Democratic Management as the subject addressed, having as object of study its relation with the Student Movement; in particular, with the school occupations carried out in the second semester of 2016 at the Vitoria de Santo Antão Campus of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pernambuco. The guiding question is: what lessons have the occupations left that can contribute to the achievement of democratic management? The research is inserted in the context of the discussions about the limits and possibilities of the experiences lived in school occupations, as learning spaces for the exercise of democratic management, characterized as a political and educational practice that collaborates in the formation of students as critical and reflective subjects. In this sense, the objective was to analyze the contributions offered by the students' school occupations, experienced in the second semester of 2016, at the Campus Vitória de Santo Antão of IFPE, in order to elaborate a proposal for democratic school management. The theoretical-methodological course started from the Dialectic Method, through a qualitative approach. The collection of information was done through the bibliographic research, based on Saviani (1999, 2011), Paro (2000, 2008), Steimbach (2018), among others; the analysis of the national and institutional documents that govern the subject and the carrying out of semi-structured interviews with the students who participated in the occupations. For the analysis of the information, the thematic content analysis technique was used. This revealed the practice of democratic management in occupied space. Students, aware of their roles and recognizing themselves as historical subjects, have joined forces with the entire school community to face the adverse reality in the search for the social quality of education, thus extending the interest for participation in social struggles. Based on the results found in the research, an Educational Product was developed: a Proposal for Democratic School Management, consisting of guidelines, principles, forms of participation and the main benefits that may arise from its application to improve the relationship between the actors within the school and with the external community in the struggle for a more democratic society. The testing and evaluation of the educational product were made with students of the institution analyzed, and their validation will be done by the examining board of the dissertation.