Issue of Democratic Education Management, Related to Education Policies

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to present reflections on the perspectives of Brazilian educational policies regarding the issues that guide the principles of democratic educational management, made possible through political commitment to achieving the goals of school financing, recommended in Goal 20 of the National Education Plan. Education (PNE), as well as Goal 19, referring to Democratic Management. The topic is a “political arena” marked by tensions and contradictions in Educational Policies, which neglect the fulfillment of the aforementioned PNE Goals (2014-2024), thus promoting managerialist management, with exclusionary curricula and based on market logic. The analyzes will be carried out based on some theoretical references, such as Paro (2014), Lima (2018), Shiroma; Evangelista (2011), Ravitch (2011); Freitas (2012), Anderson (2017), among others who substantiated broader views on this topic raised. This is a qualitative study on a relevant topic when correlated with everyday school life and interests that converge with democratic school practice. In more recent times, they serve us to express what is underlying, to overcome control over the school, especially in neoliberal times, which control the school throughactions and Public Policies, thus hurting democracy.