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Self-evaluation and democratic management in school

Auto-evaluación y gestión democráticas en la escuela

Autoavaliação e gestão democrática na instituição escolar

The purpose of this text is to discuss the Evaluation of Basic School and its interfaces with School Management, as well as the possible repercussions of this practice in decisions and actions in the institution quotidian. It presents the results of an investigation that focused on process of evaluation that count on the participation of fathers in four schools of Child Education and Initial Years of Fundamental Education in a medium sized city located in the metropolitan region of São Paulo. The analysis was concentrated in documents of evaluations carried out by the institutions themselves - secondary data. The study based conclusions that the process of evaluation in spot compounds the context of a Democratic Management in initial stage of construction, which expresses the contradictions between the proposals of the education system and the interests and needs of schools, but that constitutes an important piece for the promotion of a school where fathers/ mothers and school board search for a joining action.

Evaluation; Democratic management; Participation


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