Militarization of a public school in Distrito Federal (Brazil) and it's influence in Democratic Management
Elementary education; school militarization; democratic management; political e pedagogical project; shared management.
The phenomenon of militarized schools have been growing in Brazil, especially from 2019 onwards, with the Civicmilitary schools Federal's Program. That year, the Government of Federal District (GDF) decreed the Program of Shared Management of public schools together with the public safety department, confronting the Federal District law of Democratic Management of Public Schools (L 4.751/2012). The main research question comes from those realities and it is as follows: What unfolds from the militarization of public schools concerning the democratic management? As complementary questions, emerged: which management conceptions are expressed by the managers (civil and military) in those schools? How do managers (civil and military) act on the Political and Pedagogical's Project (PPP) management? What's the influence of military management over the democratic management of education? For the research, joined: an elected manager of a public school, enrolled in the public teacher's career, and a disciplinary manager of a military school, enrolled in the Federal District' Military Fire Department. It is a qualitative case study research, based on critical and dialects method (NETTO, 2011), using observations, semi-structured interviews with the managers and the analysis of each PPP. The data analysis was based on Bardin's Content Analysis (BARDIN, 2021). Conclusions are: a) the militarization of school provoke the democratic management's core elements and principles; b) school managers do not act side-by-side on the PPP management; c) the militarization of public schools is a business-like and vertically oriented model of management that interfere and weakens the democratic management of public schools of Brazil's Federal District.