A construção do Projeto Político-Pedagógico como instrumento de gestão democrática na escola

Abstract

The democratic management of education presupposes the existence of the joint participation of the school-family-community triad in the definition of pedagogical proposals, in order to establish an educational environment of participation and transparency. In view of the effectiveness of this management at school, this paper aimed to analyze the process of development and restructuring of the Political-Pedagogical Project (PPP) of basic education institutions of Minas Gerais, in order to identify and discuss the challenges in the elaboration and implementation of PPPs from the perspective of participative management, and to evaluate if the participation of the school community makes the school a democratic space and how this process is being implemented. For this, we considered the issues regarding the meaning of democratic management in education and its establishment in the Federal Constitution (Brazil, 1988) and in laws No. 9394/96 and No. 13.005/14, the construction of the PPP was discussed from the perspective of this management and as a guarantee of it. Then, the discussions during the PPP preparation session at a specific school in Governador Valadares were presented. In this process, it was found several difficulties of effective participation in the whole school community in the development of PPP and in the activities performed by the school, demonstrating that educational public policies committed to democratic goals must propose the means for its feasibility, besides take into account the various actors involved in daily school life, as democratic management requires the reevaluation of the didactic and administrative structure of the current school.