Students of youth and adult education as participative subjects of democratic management: cruising looks

Abstract

Governance applied to education is understood in terms of interpersonal relationships, power relationships and the decision-making process of the school community in the management of education. We investigate whether the students of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) see themselves as subjects capable of participating in the democratic management of the school. For this, we will identify the views of the various subjects of EJA (students, teachers and managers) on the ability of EJA students to participate in the democratic management of the school and map the spaces of participation destined for EJA students. We chose to conduct a case study at the Municipal School Mayor Janilson Ferreira, municipality of São José do Mipibu, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The results point to the need to help management, teachers and students to broaden the concept and participatory practice, to a sphere of broad and deep participation that reaches the political and social aspects, collaborating to achieve success in having their demands met and fostering among them macroparticipation networks with a force for social transformation.