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Revista Eletrônica de Educação

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VIEIRA, Sofia Lerche  and  VIDAL, Eloísa Maia. Democratic leadership and management in Brazilian public education. Rev. Elet. Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.13, n.1, pp.11-25.  Epub Aug 05, 2019. ISSN 1982-7199.  https://doi.org/10.14244/198271993175.

This article seeks to deepen the debate on leadership, exploring specificities of the Brazilian context on this topic, more specifically the principle of democratic management. The reflection focuses on both topics, explaining the path of the debate on democratic management since the mid-eighties of the twentieth century, passing through the Federal Constitution of 1988, the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education - Law number 9.394/96) and arriving on the most recent context, where the National Education Plan (PNE), of 2014, incorporates the subject to its goals. Considerations are presented on program contents of two national training programs: the Distance Training Program for School Managers (Progestão) and the National School Program for Managers of Basic Public Education (PNEGEB), also known as School of Managers. The main regulatory frameworks for democratic management are focused on relevant legislation. The study allows us to suggest the hypothesis that the principle of democratic management, associated with a political leadership, would have preponderated in the literature and initiatives of formation of school directors in the country, being the more technical dimension of the subject a little prioritized theme. In this sense, it can be said that the topic of leadership, as it is configured in other contexts, has become a repressed demand in Brazilian educational policy.

Keywords : Leadership and democratic management; Educational legislation; Public policies; Scholar managers training.

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