The debate about democratization of public education and the thesis of radical democratic management of the school

Abstract

In view of the extensive accumulation of interpretations on the democratic management of education in Brazil, the objective of this article is to present a theoretical-methodological management proposal that guarantees the analytical inseparability between politics and economics, in which the socialization of power constitutes nuclear mediation. Based on the intellectual production of 11 leading reference authors on democratic management in the country - widely used by researchers who have worked on the theme in recent years - theoretical and political trends have been identified which, from the transition period towards a new Constitution in the 1980s to the present day, they have been guiding the reflections about the object. The results of the study show in the bibliography reviewed the need for further development with regard to the solidification process of an antagonistic educational project, articulated with the movement to overcome the capitalist order. The emergence of a new mode of production and social reproduction in which the integral intellectual-cultural formation of the human being is possible demands, immediately, to intensify the struggle for the socialization of the political-economic power. In this regard, taking as a starting point the maximum reached in the previous syntheses and antitheses and through the exploration of its contradictions, the thesis of radial democratic management seeks to provide indispensable mediations to the processes that point to an alternative educational project that breaks with capitalism which is not limited to hegemonic ideas of bourgeois democracy. It is a management that is guided by an unattainable political dimension in this society, but that is worth of teleological reference to the collective processes of criticism, expansion and overcoming of the democratic management currently possible in the capitalist order.