The cultural and organizational character of school administration: brief notes - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v31i2.5065

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the school administration as a cultural organization that is imbue with values, rituals, practices and power relationships. This study is based on a sociological view that focuses on the specific contexts of educational action and searches to realize the school management through the subjects which are part of this process. The actions of these subjects are full of contradictions; these contradictions can be noticed in orientations that are adjusted to “fossilized” rules and bureaucracies. On the other hand, these contradictions can be seen in behaviors that are opposed to these standard rules that create practices, values, other rules and decision-making that turn the school into an organizational place of resistance, strategic, plural and open. The work is based on theoreticians that analyze directly or indirectly the school management and culture, such as: Nóvoa, Candido, Werle, Foucault and Castoriadis. This dialogue among several theoreticians can contribute to an analysis of the school management.