A GESTÃO DAS POLÍTICAS EDUCACIONAIS MUNICIPAIS: a experiência da rede pública municipal de Alto Alegre do Pindaré - MA

Abstract

This work is part of the line of research: Status and Educational Management in the Research Group: Basic Education Policy, the Graduate Program in Education - Master of the Federal University of Maranhão.Its object of study "Management of Municipal Educational Policy: Experience from public municipal Pindaré Alegre do Alto - MA."This process is limited in the reform of the Brazilian state prevalent in the 1990s, and the educational reforms arising from this reconfiguration process of education to new determinations of the market. For this purpose are defined as guiding objectives to reflect on the democratic school management guidelines prioritized education, especially the first legal frameworks: CF / 1988 and LDB (Law No. 9394/96), from conception prevalent in the years 1990. We analyze the role of councils in the area of education, placing them in the context of education, highlighting its nature, principles, objectives and functions. Addresses the process of municipalization of education and the tensions between the established social movement in the legislative process developed in the years 1980/90 in the context of democratization of Brazilian society. The methodology applied to this study is characterized as a qualitative research, whose methodological approach developed articulating documentary and empirical literature. We tried to theoretical contribution contributions Demo (1998), Time (2011), Frigotto (2004), Gohn (2002), Walnut, Romanelli, Zago (2000), Birth (2006), Paro (2004), Peace (2004 ), Werle (2008), Sheinvar; Algebaile (2004) among others. Data collection script was used semi-structured interview using a questionnaire containing open and closed questions applied to a sample of 39 (thirty nine) subjects: managers, teachers, parents, educational coordinators and local education authorities . The study highlighted the importance and need for more knowledge on the part of the school community on design and management principles of democracy, autonomy, participation and management of educational work, as well as investments in initial and continuing training of school subjects, including manager. We emphasize the importance of active participation of the school community, as a contribution to overcoming the social contradictions that resonate within you and help and involvement with a view to the process of building a more humane and democratic society.