Participação dos pais e encarregados de educação nos processos de Constituição e funcionamento do conselho de escola: uma análise A partir da Escola Primária Completa Unidade 13, na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The present work analyzes the participation of parents and guardians in the processes of Constitution and Functioning of the School Council. The issue of participation in the School Council has been analyzed from two lines of approach. The first line defends the existence of two classes, of which one dominant, which participates and has decision-making power, in to the detriment of another dominated, and the second line argues that everyone participates. If, on the one hand, this literature makes it possible to understand the mode of participation, on the other hand it remains to understand other aspects present in the school in addition to power and the different forms of participation that can occur at school. Based on fieldwork, at Escola Primaria Completa Unidade 13, where I ethnographed the reality of a school and interacted with parents and guardians, I was able to understand that participation varies according to the group of parents and guardians. Thus, the group of people who occupy positions of leadership in the institutions, in the ruling party, owners of commercial establishments and who speak fluent Portuguese, present ideas that are accepted by school representatives. In turn, domestic ladies, market and street vendors, unemployed young men and students and young female students, their participation is restricted in the presence at the meetings because their decisions are not considered to be rejected when they are different from those presented. by the first group. Finally, the third group, composed of individuals who are directors, customs officers, bank employees, unemployed people who do not participate in class meetings or in the School Council.