Democratic school management and education quality: a case study at a municipal school in the interior of São Paulo

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Alessandra Teresinha
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Mendes, Glauco Henrique de Sousa, Boriolo, Raquel Ottani
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Gestão e Avaliação Educacional
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/regae/article/view/25367

This article discusses the impacts of the school manager profile and the adoption of the democratic management style have in the quality of education, measured indirectly from the performance of the school in large-scale external evaluations. For this, evidence of these impacts was systematized from the reference literature, and a case study was conducted in a small school in a municipality in the interior of the State of São Paulo, using official data on school performance from Ideb, between 2007 and 2013, the style of management adopted in this period and interviews with two of its managers. Evidence indicates that the director's length of stay in the same school is decisive for the results achieved in Ideb, along with the participation of the school community and the democratic style of management, being the school studied a picture of the impacts of these factors.Key-words: democratic management, education quality, school management, Ideb.