MANEGERIAL POLICIES AND ACTUATION OF SCHOOL COUNCILS IN EARLY CHILDREN'S EDUCATION UNITS IN THE MOSSORÓ-RN
Democratic management; School councils; Early Childhood Education Units; Managerial Policies.
This research was developed in the scope of the Graduate Program in Education, at the State University of Rio Grande do Norte, as part of the line of Research in Education Policies and Management. It discusses the performance of school councils in three Early Childhood Education Units (UEIs), in the city of Mossoró - RN, whose objective was to analyze the performance of these Councils in the face of managerial policies. The research is of a qualitative nature, we opted for the methodology of non-participant observation with the use of the research diary, document analysis based on the Law of Guidelines and Bases (LDB No. 9.394/1996), on the National Education Plan (PNE, Law No. 13,005/2014); Educational Responsibility Law (LRE n. 2.717/2010), and Law n. 2769/2011, as well as in the minutes of the school councils (2011-2022). To build the data with sixteen councilors, we conducted a semi-structured interview. The theoretical-methodological foundation is anchored in Barbosa and Hess (2010), Batista (2020), Brasil (1988), Gomes (2019), Laval (2019), Lima (2008), Paro (2001, 2007, 2016), Santos (2021), Bardin (2016), Franco (2005), among other scholars. The results demonstrate the immense challenges to be overcome, in the sense that school councils act with autonomy and their training space is respected, with conditions for functioning. According to the reports of the research subjects, a point that deserves to be highlighted is the expansion of training for counselors, so that it reaches everyone. Thus building spaces of democracy instead of meeting bureaucratic requirements, we perceive in the voices of the subjects that the award generates internal and external competition in the teaching Units. We understand that when participation flows, representatives become more active subjects for the improvement of public education.