Gestão democrática da Educação: análise da sua materialidade nos sistemas municipais de educação da mesorregião sul do Maranhão

Abstract

Nationwide debates have been focusing on the importance of democratization of education. Although the legislation in force carries out the necessary changes, the implementation of debates and the guidelines proposed do not go through efficiently the educational systems yet. Because of that, this research is an analysis of the materiality of democratic school management in the Municipal Systems of Education in the Mesoregion of the South of the State of Maranhão, highlighting the relationships between the normative basis, the spaces and mechanisms related to democratic management represent democratization actions based on the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Brazil (1988), and on the Law Nr. 9.394/1996, as well as in accordance with the points of view of authors who work with educational and democratic, participative management policies such as Cury (2010); Dourado (2008); Bordignon (2009); Abrucio (2010); Araujo (2010), among others quoted within the theoretical reference of this research. There is a vision of autonomy and political, administrative, and financial participation in relation to the organization of educational systems especially in municipalities. The methodological procedures of the research utilized in the accomplishment of this thesis are based on qualitative and quantitative subsidies. It is a bibliographical, documentary research accomplished through the analyses of laws of Municipal Systems of Education, Municipal Councils of Education, and the Municipal Organic Laws which have instituted the Municipal Systems of Education within the Southern Mesoregion, focus of this study, and, a field research followed by questionnaire to the members of the Municipal Councils of Education in the cities of Carolina and Porto Franco, in the State of Maranhão. The study points out that two out of nineteen municipalities which compose the Southern Mesoregion of Maranhão – Carolina and Porto Franco – have instituted their Municipal Systems of Education with minimal spaces and mechanisms of participation of the society. Both municipalities researched have created their municipal councils of education, but they are closed. An analysis in relation to the legislation and local scenery shows up impasses to make the educational policy effective and that there is still a long way to go through in order to accomplish and make broader the beginning of the democratic management in the environment of the educational systems in these municipalities.