Abstract
The article results from a collaborative research-action which the investigative theme was the revitalization of the Political-Pedagogical Project (PPP) of a Municipal Teaching Network. On the network scope (besides others local devices, as the Municipal Education Plan, for example), the PPP is a divice that, articulated to the other legal devices, condenses the educational ideology that confers an identity, guides the organization and the collective educational actions. Through the need to revitalize the network’s PPP, the Municipality’s Education Departament resorted to the researchers’ advisory with the intention of such process was developed in a participatory research and based on collective decisions, assuring the diverse views of the actors of each educational community. Thus, in this text, we make an analytical-discursive clipping about the conceptions of 78 managers who participate in the process. The data, categorized through the Content Analysis Technique, arising from documentary analysis and a questionnaire, indicate the potentiality of action-research as an approach that favors action-reflection-intervention. The hindrance encountered, which had limited the collective and participatory constitution, stem from the time space devoted to the process, compromising the spaces for recflection, deepening and discussion, fundamental for the theoretical- methodological alignment and the consolidation of collective political consensus. Finally, it is commendable the posture and the challenge that the manegers, within the framework of a Municipal Education Departament, are placed in assuming in a participatory way the construction of a device of the scope of a PPP.
Political-Pedagogical Project; Democratic management; School managers