Revista Brasileira de Política e Administração da Educação
Print version ISSN 1678-166XOn-line version ISSN 2447-4193
Abstract
LAGARES, ROSILENE; BRITO, KATIA CRISTINA FERREIRA CUSTÓDIO and SILVA, MEIRE LÚCIA ANDRADE DA. Management of education in municipal systems of teaching in Tocantins: tensioning between democratic principle and method. Revista Brasileira de Política e Administração da Educação [online]. 2020, vol.36, n.1, pp.94-110. Epub July 27, 2020. ISSN 2447-4193. https://doi.org/10.21573/vol36n12020.96280.
The article presents a review of the normative framework and political-institutional conditions in municipal education systems in Tocantins, for the democratic management in the field of public education and characteristics of the dynamics of participation in their school communities. It is a research of bibliographical, documentary and field nature. The results show the presence of principles/spaces/mechanisms essential to the democratic management in the systems. However, it strips the tension between the democratic principle and method. It shows the need for conceptual deepening.
Keywords : Democratic management of education; Educational policies; Educational legislation; Municipal education.