Gestão democrática na educação infantil pública: a proposta pedagógica como um princípio

Abstract

The process of democratization of educational management as determined in the National Constitution of 88 and reiterated by the LDBEN 9394/96 set two principles for a democratic administration, one of which being the involvement of the educators in creating schools' pedagogical projects, and the second being the involvement of the local and academic communities in the academic board or any similar groups. It should be noted that many educational managers struggle with involving the whole institution and the community it's a part of in elaborating the pedagogical project, and therefore, implementing said democratic principles. The study sought to reveal a few of the challenges faced and the strategies adopted by the administrators of a public early childhood school in the Belo Horizonte School District in order to democratically build a pedagogical proposal, through qualitative research incorporating document analysis and interviews, aiming to help other schools too in the process. It was concluded that the challenges faced by the school were too many, but the results also pointed to a need to keep the management as is in order to establish effective partnerships between the professionals, the children, their families and the local community, so that the democratic public administration and the quality of education are effective.