Possibilidades e limites da assunção dos princípios democráticos na gestão escolar: um estudo numa Escola Estadual do Município de Duque de Caxias

Abstract

The present work constitutes itself on a case study on the possibilities and limits of the assumption of democratic principles in school management, having as backdrop a state school situated in the city of Duque de Caxias. It describes and analyzes the practice of the school management at the investigated school, considering interference from the managerial presented a socio -historical process that resulted in the change of focus of the term school administration to the term school management; it is approached, still, the structure and the organization of the State Board of Education of Rio de Janeiro and its interference in the practice of school management. The used methodology was comprised by bibliographical research, observation, analysis of do cuments and semi- structured interviews. Those tools allowed to identify that: the educational management of the State Schools of Rio de Janeiro develops a practice based in the technical-scientific conception; the management of the school where it was mad e the survey has been facing limitation caused by the Education Network that it belongs, and the practice of school management presents some of the essential elements for the assumption of democratic principles.