BRAZILIAN PUBLIC POLICIES AND DEMOCRATIC PRACTICES OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS

We reflect on the importance of democratic practices as a process and its significance in the educational field, from some school directors reports. The empirical part was carried out in a Brazilian medium-sized city, located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Established a sample of ten municipal schools each with their respective managers and we made semi-structured interviews in order to verify to what extent they created democratic practices and spaces where, according to their views. We present three categories: democratic spaces and school policy; democracy in the eyes of school principals; and, educational and democratic management policies. When analyzing the reports and practices of directors concluded that these in some way, sought to manage the school with democratic prospects. These practices are quite creative as was the case with the politics of coffee.