GIDE ANDE THE DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CAPITAL OF AMAZONAS

: This article is an excert from a doctoral thesis in Education entitled Perceptions of managers and teachers of Semed Manaus / AM about Integrated School Management (GIDE): a critical analysis. The study aims to identify the effects of GIDE on democratic management in municipal public schools based on the reports from seven managers and eight teachers who work at Semed Manaus. GIDE is a management system that integrates strategic, political and managerial aspects for the educational, aiming to expand the quantitative results of the teaching- learning process of students. However, as a management approach with managerial perspectives that uses control tools, and standardization in all school management and pedagogical activities, it runs counter to the democratic principles established in the National Education Guidelines and Framework Law (LDBEN/9.394/96). This is a qualitative research study, in which semi-structured interviews, which were then transcribed and analyzed using thematic-categorical content analysis. The analysis shows that managers and teachers perceive that the centralizing and inflexible methodology of GIDE impacts on democratic practices in daily school life, creating a culture of compliance with goals, deadlines, and pre-established tasks, with little spaces for divergent thinking amongby school leaders and teachers, who find themselves limited by this management approach.