Abstract

KUSSEM, Juliana  and  SOUZA, Ângelo Ricardo de. Public school administration: the distance between discourse and action. Rev. Educ. Questão [online]. 2023, vol.61, n.67, e-32061.  Epub Dec 05, 2023. ISSN 1981-1802.  https://doi.org/10.21680/1981-1802.2023v61n67id32061.

This text aims to expand the methodological framework of studies that analyze the daily management of public schools. The proposed cut-off uses data from a survey conducted and investigates the gap between discourse and action over the democratic management of school principals of three different Elementary Schools of Curitiba's municipal education system. Through a questionnaire, shadowing, interviews and observations, a typology was built with four categories: Democratic Administration; Democratic Administration’; Traditional Administration and Traditional Administration’". These categories allowed the comparison with the empirical reality, with theory (LIMA 1998; PARO, 2012, 2016; SOUZA, 2009; WEBER, 2000) and among the management cases of the three school principals. The outcomes obtained point out that the three cases observed presented a similar democratic discourse, denouncing the influence of the early and continual education of these professionals Among other aspects, the action was distinguished in each one of the cases. The article concludes that the contributions of each research techniques were fundamental in the production of results.

Keywords : Education policy; Democratic school management; School principals; Research.

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