Dos princípios da administração escolar ao paradigma da gestão democrática

Um estudo fundado na crítica marxista

Abstract

This paper has as aim to discuss, according to the marxist ontological criticism, the terminological and conceptual change in the educational administration in favor of the educational management or democratic educational management, in order to understand what that change of paradigm, linked to the process of social reproduction, has meant. This study takes as fundamental a theoretical-bibliographical research, based on the onto-historical perspective to the comprehension of real, under the marxist criticism, which comes from the movement of real to understand the phenomena of the sociability. We have revisited selected works about the educational administration/management that had been written, respectively, in periods denominated classic and critical. As preliminary considerations, we postulate, based on our referential, that the paradigm of the educational management which is prevailing since the decade 1980, in Brazil, would translate a capitulation of the revolutionary field in accordance to the democraticcitizen horizon, as Tonet analyzes. Besides this, such paradigm takes part on the productive and ideological restructuration of capital in the context of its structural crisis, so conceived by Mészáros, in order to ensure the process of accumulation, keeping intact the bases of the system.