Equality of educational opportunities as democracy assumption and the conflicts in democratic management ; Igualdad de oportunidades educativas como un asunto de democracia y contradiciones en la gestión democrática ; A igualdade de oportunidades educativas como pressuposto da democracia e as contradições na gestão democrática

Abstract

Given the important role that school management currently plays, this paper aims to discuss democracy from democratic management perspective in educational institutions. Thus, it focuses on ideas of equal opportunity, liberties, human and social rights, which are safeguarded by modern democracy, where conflicts in the perpetuation of inequalities and social violence in education occur, prompting the analysis of democracy in the capitalist context. This is an exploratory-bibliographical, qualitative research that is based on documental analysis of publications that are related to literature pertinent to educational policies, democracy, and democratic management. The study found that the democratic management has oscillated between equal management of the School Council and a management that is discretional, bureaucratic, and that is more tolerant to the perverse logics of control and hierarchy than to the school self-organization which should identify with a participatory democracy. ; Debido a la importancia que asume hoy la gestión escolar, la investigación discute la democracia desde la perspectiva de la gestión democratica en las intituiciones educativas. Con este fin, el articulo refleja las ideas de igualdad de oportunidades, libertades, derechos humanos y sociales defendidos por la democracia moderna, que ha sido escenario de contradicciones en la perpetuación de la desigualdade y la violência social en la educación, lo que implica analizar la democracia en el contexto capitalista. Es una investigación cualitativa exploratoria-bibliografica, que utiliza el análises documental de publicaciones relacionadas con la literatura inherente a las políticas educativas, la democracia, la gestión democrática. Señala que la gestión democrática ha oscilado entre la gestión equitativa del Consejo Escolar y uma gestión discrecional y burocrática que impregna lógicas más perversas de control y jerarquia que la autorganización de la escuela que identifica uma democracia participativa. ; Pela importância que assume nos ...