GESTÃO EDUCACIONAL DEMOCRÁTICA: ELEIÇÕES PARA DIRETORES

Abstract

This paper brings an analysis of the results made through bibliographic research on Democratic Educational Management: Elections for Directors, which is based on the Federal Constitution, the LDBEN and the PNE. The methodological basis is a qualitative app roach, using the exploratory research method, which aims to provide greater proximity to the subject in question. Currently there are mechanisms that enable collective decisions within the school, which means that we are experiencing a democracy, although the processes involving these decisions are not so easy. In this sense, we seek to understand how democratic school management and the processes for elections of school principal’s work. Democratic school management seeks to facilitate the learning method and aims to include the entire academic community in decisions, engaging the students' performance as much as possible. The elections for directors and one of the forms of democratization of a school, because the whole school community participates, shares interest, projects within the educational institution, there are four processes of choice for directors: they are appointment, competition, election and the mixed scheme, However, democratic school management does not occur only with the direct election f or directors, but also depends on the performance of school councils and community participation in decision-making.