The Role of school Managers in Brazil in Times of Pandemics: The Challenges of Democratic Management for the Quality of Education

Abstract

A Covid-19 pandemic has brought immense challenges for all sectors in Brazil and worldwide, or that require coordinated actions in the management of educational institutions, especially in public schools that interrupt or leave a school. In this context, the objective of this article is to bring up the reflection on the role of the school manager as responsible for the administration of all resources: human, financial, material and pedagogical, and his skills in face of the quality of post-pandemic education. In this sense, the Law of Directives and Bases of National Education (BRASIL, 1996), includes the education systems that define the standards of democratic management of public education in basic education, according to the specificities at this time. Thus, a research adopted a qualitative methodology, through Literature Review ((LAKATOS and MARCONI, 2003) and by Documentary Research (MALDANER, 2015; GIL, 2018), where we analyze the current panorama of educational and school management in Brazil, identifying some premises and challenges for the manager, in dialogue with the legislation in force and authors dealing with the theme (DOURADO, OLIVEIRA, 2019; LÜCK, 2017; LIBÂNEO, 2011; PARO, 2006) .in an innovative and efficient way, despite all the problems that the country faces, many school managers can bring reflections on actions of return to educational activities or activities of scientific culture in dialogue with humanists, valuing a search for knowledge and the teaching-learning process of all the actors who play the space called school and security in life.