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The School Management: a mined field... Analysis of the proposals from 11 brazilian cities

The current tendency of the educational reforms, underway during the last decades, in several countries all over the world, has the education and school management as one of their pillars of transformation. The hegemonic position of this reforms defends the beginning of a radical change in the way the management of educational systems are thought of and implemented. Thus, one of the main educational policies in Brazil is the decentralization of both the educational system and the school. The latter promotes the institutional self-management. Researches on educational reforms conducted in several countries indicate a tendency of fragmentation of the educational system as a result of the management policies being applied, sustained by the concepts of autonomy, decentralization, flexibility, individualization, local power, etc. Thus, the construction of a new democratic institutionalization of the school is not taken as a challenge to the new hegemonic model of educational management. On the contrary, the challenge for this new model is defined as the construction of a new way of governing - instrumentally understood and, therefore, seen as having eminently normative and pragmatic contents (Fiori, 1995) - within the educational system and the school contribution for the way of governing of society as a whole.This article intends to analyze the educational policy proposals for school management set forth by government of 11 cities from different areas of Brazil; and to discuss the rationality of these new forms of organization and management. The analysis of proposals involving the school management reforms has been guided by the questions they arise about democracy, centralism, teaching quality and the role of teachers and other agents taking part in the educational process.


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