Política de gestão escolar na sociedade de controle

Abstract

One of the characteristics of our time is the requirement for school for each individual, during an increasing period of time and that it must be democratic. Policy of School Management within the Society of Control examines the emergence of discursive practices about democratic management and the school manager`s training within school, in the latter half of the twentieth century, taking as reference the clues given by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze concerning thinking about the present based on the notions of governmentality and society of control. It problematizes the discursive practices at school, which operate practices to govern more and better the self and the others. The analyses of authors who systematize the democratic management, of the training program named Progestão, and of interviews with directors of state public schools in Blumenau constitute the origins of this research regarding the device school management. Aiming at governing itself and the others according to the rules, with democracy and security, the school invites to participation and teaches how to be a democratic manager. Training programs enlarge devices, produce ways of subjetivation, with emphasis on being manager, company of yourself, flexible, dynamic, multifaceted, participatory, attaching the required qualification of the subjects to typical certifications of the society of control. The movements from the director to the administrator, and from the latter to the managers, with democratic management, alternates centralized surveillance and decentralized control. Within the several possibilities of democracy, the democratic management is always unfinished and produces possibilities of building participatory collectives that would abdicate from resistance practices