LEADERSHIP IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT: AN ANALYSIS TOWARDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES
Leadership; Director; Management; School.
The present work aims, in general, to understand how the school management model, personified by the principal, can translate different understandings of transformational leadership, in the formative context of Mentoria de Diretores Escolares no DF, and specifically: 1) collect understandings about the concept and the application of leadership in the school imagination; 2) understand the process of training formal leaders, at school, based on the democratic management law; 3) analyze how formal leaders, Directors, can influence the school community. The formal authority of the leaders studied has repercussions on individual and collective political creation, as a silencing or transformative mechanism, capable of repressing or revealing important conflicts for the development of humanity in the world and imparting a power of decision-making influence under the dialogics and dialectics of socialization, the creation of symbolism and the worldview encompassed. The qualitative methodology explores, here, the break with classical paradigms, the construction of collective intellectuality based on a critical and reflective scientificity and the study of formative and operational signifiers and meanings of leadership in the school environment, using literature review, complete observation and the application of semi-structured interviews to collect and systematize data and information. The research followed ethical principles and was validated by the program's executive team and the Secretaria de Educação do DF and is justified by the institutional, democratizing, universalizing and emancipating role of the school, from the perspective of the director as a decision-making figure, influential directly and indirectly, in environmental culture, in student performance, in the political-pedagogical vision adopted and in the consolidation of a society project.