Abstract

FARIAS, Elioenai Santos de Santana  and  VIEIRA, Emilia Peixoto. THE ACTIONS OF EDUCATION COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THE STRENGTHENING OF A DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2020, vol.10, e020117.  Epub Mar 31, 2022. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2020v10n1id1503.

This article analyzes the role and performance of education council members as a way of strengthening the democratic management in a Municipal Education System (SME, in Portuguese acronym). This research presents both the institutionalization of councils and the performance of council members, highlighting the challenges in monitoring educational policies in a city in the southern region of Bahia. This work has a historical and dialectical perspective, considering the understanding of the universal and the particular, in a relationship of the whole with its parts. “Action Research”, advocated by Thiollent (2011), was the chosen methodology. Results indicate that education council members face challenges when carrying out their functions, such as the need to know the laws and, therefore, to study national and local educational legislation. Joint actions between education councils can assist in the training of council members and in the disclosure of municipal education councils’ functions.

Keywords : Education councils; Participation; Democratic management.

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