Participação docente e democracia na escola: significados e vivências

Abstract

The goal of this study is to investigate the significations of the teachers regarding participation and democracy in school based on their experiences. It is a qualitative research that has the Socio-historical Psychology as the theoretical-methodological referential. Making interviews with three teachers of a Public School in São Paulo, we tried to realize how democracy is understood by them, which connections the teachers have inside the school and how they see their space of participation. The interpretative analysis of the data tried to articulate the theoretical referential of the Socio-historical Psychology with the studies of several of authors that write about democracy in school. The final considerations of this research point to the necessity of an enlargement of the concepts of democracy and participation, and it is necessary that the teachers reflect more deeply upon their participative and democratic practices and how these practices happen in school day by day